Japanese symbol for “pretreatment”

前処理

まえしょり

Romaji: maeshori

preprocessing; pretreatment; preparation

In Japanese, pretreatment is 前処理, read まえしょり (maeshori).

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Meanings

n, vs, vt preprocessing; pretreatment; preparation

Kanji and stroke order

前

in front, before

on: ゼン
kun: まえ、-まえ

9 strokes · JLPT 4

処

dispose, manage, deal with

on: ショ
kun: ところ、-こ、お.る

5 strokes · JLPT 2

理

logic, arrangement, reason

on: リ
kun: ことわり

11 strokes · JLPT 3

Related words

Words that share a kanji.

Word	Reading	Meaning
名前	なまえ namae	name
以前	いぜん izen	before; prior to; ago
お前	おまえ omae	you
前回	ぜんかい zenkai	previous time; last time; previous installment
午前	ごぜん gozen	morning; a.m.
当たり前	あたりまえ atarimae	natural; reasonable; obvious
処理	しょり shori	processing; dealing with; treatment
処分	しょぶん shobun	disposal; throwing away; selling off
理由	りゆう riyuu	reason; grounds; pretext

Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.