in the past in Mandarin

You can remember the meaning of 以前 with this easy mnemonic:

According to (以) my mother, in the past, she had to pass a letter to the person seated in front (前) of her when she wanted to communicate with her brother who was seated in the first row of the class.

Using mnemonics to remember the meaning of Chinese characters like can have an enormous impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

• 前
• 以

• 所以
• 以外
• 以来
• 向前
• 可以
• 之前
• 难以置信
• 有史以来
• 足以
• 之所以
• 提前
• 目前
• 面前
• 难以
• 前面
• 以及

The reading of 以前 is yǐ qián.

You can remember how to say 以前 with this useful mnemonic:

Years (yǐ) ago, people didn't have mobiles to text each other or do group chats so people played around with chain (qián) letters.

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