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前所未见

qián suǒ wèi jiàn

4-character word Traditional 前所未見

What 前所未见 means

1. unprecedented
2. never seen before

The characters in 前所未见

• 前qiánfront; forward; ahead
• 所suǒactually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc
• 未wèinot yet; did not; have not
• 见jiànto see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)

Example sentences

• 这是个用这个国家前所未见的，环绕学校、教堂的无数人龙，所说出的答案。这些人苦等三、四个小时投票，许多人还是生平头一次，因为他们相信，这次一定要不一样，他们的声音就是明证。
  Zhè shì gè yòng zhège guójiā qiánsuǒwèijiàn de, huánrào xuéxiào, jiàotáng de wúshù rénlóng, suǒ shuōchū de dá'àn. zhèxiē rén kǔ děng sān, sì gè xiǎoshí tóupiào, xǔduō rén háishi shēngpíng tóuyī cì, yīnwèi tāmen xiāngxìn, zhè cì yīdìngyào bù yīyàng, tāmen de shēngyīn jiùshì míngzhèng.
  It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches, in numbers this nation has never seen. By people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.