後

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.2 Adnominal 3.3 Adverb 3.4 Kanji 3.4.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 彳 + 幺 + 又

[edit] Han character

後 (radical 60 彳+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹人女戈水 (HOVIE), four-corner 2224₇)

1. behind, rear, after
2. descendants

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 366, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10098
• Dae Jaweon: page 688, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 822, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5F8C

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

後 (simplified 后, Yale hau6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

後 (hiragana あと, romaji ato)

1. the back; the rear; behind
2. the rest

[edit] Adnominal

後の(あとの, atono)

1. rear
2. latter

[edit] Adverb

後に(あとに, atoni)

1. behind
2. later

その後(そのあと, sonoato そののち sononochi)

1. then
2. soon afterward

[edit] Kanji

後 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: ご (go), こう (kō)
• Kun: おくれる (後れる, okureru), のち (nochi), あと (ato), うしろ　ushiro,

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

後 (simplified 后, pinyin hòu (hou4), Wade-Giles hou⁴)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

後 (hậu)