1. front
2. forward
3. ahead
4. first
5. top (followed by a number)
6. future
7. ago
8. before
9. BC (e.g. 前293年)
10. former
11. formerly

classifier: 個

1. grain
2. harvest (old)
3. variant of 年 nián

1. Boston Celtics (team in NBA)
2. Celt; Celtic people
3. Celtic F.C. (team in Scottish Premiership)

1. to be (followed by substantives only)
2. correct; right; true
3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)

1. beforehand; first; earlier
2. at first; originally
3. for the time being; for now
4. (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)

1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 pígéde "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
5. also pr. dì or di in poetry and songs

classifiers: 個, 位