前途

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 前途 is read as ぜんと and is a noun for the road ahead or the future prospects of a person or plan.
• Basic usage: A young researcher’s future appears in 若い研究者の前途, while a plan having bright prospects appears in 計画の前途は明るい.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Focus on future possibilities
  • It evaluates how a person’s path or a plan may unfold from now on rather than describing its past course.
• Difference from 将来
  • Unlike the broad word for a future time or future generally, this term has a more literary sense of the path and prospects lying ahead.