Illustration: In a Japanese school craft room, a student’s tall cardboard tower has collapsed across the worktable. Instead of withdrawing, the student smiles with renewed concentration and uses the fallen sections to build a lower, broader structure with sturdy triangular supports.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

前まえ向むき

maemuki

positive, constructive

Example sentences

  1. 常つねに前向まえむきでいようと心掛こころがけているんだ。

    I try to be positive all the time.

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  2. 前向まえむきに考かんがえよう。

    Let’s try and think productively.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしたちはもう少すこし前向まえむきに時間じかんを使つかうべきだと思おもう。

    I think we should use our time a bit more constructively.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 前向

  • 前in front; beforeOnゼンKunまえ
  • 向face; tend towardOnコウKunむく・むい・むける

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