思前想后 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 思前想後 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. sīqiánxiǎnghòu ㄙ ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄏㄡˋ 男 女 to consider past cause and future effect (idiom) to think over the past and future to ponder over reasons and connection Character by character 思(sī)think 前(qián)front 想(xiǎng)desire 后(hòu)empress A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT