后

See also 後

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

厂 (to announce) + 一 + 口 (a mouth). It represents the powerful queue gives orders.

Han character

后 (radical 30 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹一口 (HMR), four-corner 7226₁, composition ⿸𠂋口)

1. queen, empress, sovereign (Simplified and Traditional)
2. after, following, behind (Simplified only)

This character is present in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese. However, it only means "after" or "behind" when it is simplified due to the merging of characters 后 and 後 in Simplified Chinese. The latter is used to represent "after" in Traditional Chinese.

References

• KangXi: page 176, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3298
• Dae Jaweon: page 393, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 580, character 1
• Unihan data for U+540E

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Japanese

Kanji

后 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō), ご (go)
• Kun: きみ (kimi), きさき (kisaki)

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Korean

Hanja

后 (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu, Yale hwu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Adjective

后 (simplified, Pinyin hòu (hou4), traditional 後)

1. after; following; behind

Noun

后 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin hòu (hou4))

1. queen; empress; sovereign

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Vietnamese

Han character

后 (hậu)