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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Han character

(radical 30 +3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹一口 (HMR), four-corner 72261)

  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 in Simplified Chinese. The latter is used to represent "after" in Traditional Chinese.

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu)


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Adjective

(simplified, Pinyin hòu, traditional )

  1. after; following; behind

[edit] Noun

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin hòu)

  1. queen; empress; sovereign

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