(こと(P);こん) (n) (1) thing; matter; (2) incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; (3) circumstances; situation; state of affairs; (4) work; business; affair; (5) after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; (n-suf) (6) (See 事・ごと・1) nominalizing suffix; (7) (See 事・ごと・2) pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; (P) [EDICT]
(ごと) (suf) (1) (See 事・こと・6) nominalizing suffix; (2) (See 事・こと・7) pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... [EDICT]
(じ) (n) {Buddh} (See 理・2) individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle) [EDICT]
(せん) (adj-no,n) (1) former; previous; old; (n) (2) first move (in go, shogi, etc.); opening move [EDICT]
(さき) (n,adj-no,n-suf,pref) (1) previous; prior; former; some time ago; preceding; (2) point (e.g. pencil); tip; end; nozzle; (3) head (of a line); front; (4) ahead; the other side; (5) the future; hereafter; (6) destination; (7) the other party; (P) [EDICT]
(xiān, ㄒㄧㄢ) early; prior; former; in advance; first [CE-DICT]
这
(zhè, ㄓㄜˋ) this; these; (commonly pronounced zhei4 before a classifier, esp. in Beijing) [CE-DICT]
(zhī, ㄓ) classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc [CE-DICT]
是
(これ) (pn) (1) (uk) (See 何れ・1,其れ・1,彼・あれ・1) this (indicating an item near the speaker, the action of the speaker, or the current topic); (2) (hum) this person (usu. indicating someone in one's in-group); (3) now; (4) (arch) here; (5) (arch) I (me); (6) (arch) certainly; (P) [EDICT]