超 chāo
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 走 — to walk, to run, to flee
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
超前
chāoqián
ahead of time; advanced
Characters in this word
前 qián
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
Example phrases
- 这位导演的叙事手法在当年显得过于超前，直到十年后才被重新评价。 Zhè wèi dǎoyǎn de xùshì shǒufǎ zài dāngnián xiǎnde guòyú chāoqián, zhídào shí nián hòu cái bèi chóngxīn píngjià. The director's narrative technique seemed too far ahead of its time then and was only re-evaluated ten years later.
- 这座建筑的设计非常超前，几十年后看也不过时。 Zhè zuò jiànzhù de shèjì fēicháng chāoqián, jǐshí nián hòu kàn yě bú guòshí. The design of this building is very advanced and still looks fresh decades later.
- 他的想法太超前了，当时没有人能理解。 Tā de xiǎngfǎ tài chāoqián le, dāngshí méiyǒu rén néng lǐjiě. His ideas were too far ahead of their time and nobody then could understand.
Related words
- 超过 chāoguò to exceed; to overtake
- 超市 chāoshì supermarket
- 超级 chāojí super; very
- 超越 chāoyuè to surpass; to overtake
- 高超 gāochāo superb, excellent
- 超标 chāobiāo to exceed the standard
- 前 qián front, before
- 前边 qiánbian front, in front
- 前天 qiántiān the day before yesterday
- 面前 miànqián in front of
- 前年 qiánnián the year before last
- 以前 yǐqián before; in the past