後

See also 后

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 彳 + 幺 + 又

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

後 (simplified 后, Yale hau6)

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Japanese

Noun

後 (hiragana あと, romaji ato)

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

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

Suffix

後 (hiragana ご, romaji -go)

1. after

Kanji

後 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

後 (hậu)