HanTrace

前者

qiánzhě

Meaning

  • the former (i.e. the one mentioned first)

Example

实践和理论同样重要,但我们倾向于重视后者而忽略前者。

Practice is as important as theory, but we are apt to value the latter and despise the former.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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