Prior to in Chinese
prior to · HSK 4
之前
- 之 of
- 前 front
睡觉之前别喝咖啡。 Don't drink coffee before going to bed.
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How do you say prior to in Chinese?
Prior to in Chinese is 之前 (zhī qián).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.