ぜんえい

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ぜんえい – see the following entry.

【前衛】 [noun] vanguard (leading units of an army) [noun] forward (player nearest to the opposing soccer team), lineman (playing position in football), or similar positions in tennis, volleyball, and other sports [noun] avant-garde, vanguard (forefront of any group or movement)

(This term, ぜんえい (zen'ei), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)