jmdict 1596340 Active (id#2365009)
前編 [news2,nf46] ； 前篇 [rK]
【 ぜんぺん [news2,nf46] 】
  1. [n]
    • first part (of a book, film, etc.)
    • first volume
    Cross references:
    • ⇔ see: 1270090 後編 1. latter part (of a book, film, etc.); second part (of two); second half; third part (of three); final part; last volume
  2. [n]
    • prequel
    Cross references:
    • ⇒ see: 2777020 前日譚 1. prequel
History:
    • A 2026-03-19 05:53:23 Jim Breen (id#2365009)
    • A* 2026-03-18 22:53:11 Robin Scott (id#2364982)
    • Comments
      I think "prequel" should be a separate sense.
    • Refs
      daij, meikyo
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/外伝#前編・前日譚
>> 本来は「2部以上で構成される作品の最初の一編」を指す（例：前編・中編・後編）。しかし、続編の対義語として使われる場合もある。その場合は、本編より後に制作された、時間的に本編より前の出来事を描いた作品を指し、多くの場合、本編の主人公（主要人物）と物語の中心となる事柄（場所や物、事件）のどちらか、または両方を本編に引き継ぐ形になっている。
    • Diff
      @@ -21 +21 @@
-<gloss>first part</gloss>
+<gloss>first part (of a book, film, etc.)</gloss>
@@ -22,0 +23,4 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="2777020">前日譚・1</xref>
    • A 2023-12-28 02:57:17 Stephen Kraus (id#2286629)
    • Refs
      〈前編／前篇〉（の／を／は／で／に）

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ 前編　 │ 1,192,860 │ 98.1% │
│ 前篇　 │    22,575 │  1.9% │
├─ーーー─┼───────────┼───────┤
│ 前編の │    25,910 │ 97.2% │
│ 前篇の │       755 │  2.8% │
├─ーーー─┼───────────┼───────┤
│ 前編を │    20,820 │ 97.4% │
│ 前篇を │       565 │  2.6% │
├─ーーー─┼───────────┼───────┤
│ 前編は │    26,285 │ 98.6% │
│ 前篇は │       371 │  1.4% │
├─ーーー─┼───────────┼───────┤
│ 前編で │    22,897 │ 98.5% │
│ 前篇で │       359 │  1.5% │
├─ーーー─┼───────────┼───────┤
│ 前編に │    12,018 │ 98.1% │
│ 前篇に │       236 │  1.9% │
╰─ーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -10,0 +11 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
    • A* 2023-12-28 02:39:12 alphaOrionis (id#2286628)
    • Comments
      Changing the order of the kanji to list the most common used version first. See e.g. references. JMdict also refers to 後編 from this entry and from 後編 it refers to 前編. Thus 前編 should be listed first.
    • Refs
      Kotobank,Goo
    • Diff
      @@ -4,3 +3,0 @@
-<k_ele>
-<keb>前篇</keb>
-</k_ele>
@@ -10,0 +8,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>前篇</keb>
    • A 2012-08-21 23:40:19 Rene Malenfant
    • Refs
      eij
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