Kilo Lingo

后

hòu

Traditional: 後

HSK 2
#211 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

after, behind, later

Stroke order

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后

Examples

。

After finishing the meal.

。

Let's talk in three days.

。

He is behind me.

课kè。

After class we will go and eat.

。

He will be back after three days.

后 (hòu) means after, behind, later. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

然后

then, after that, afterwards

天

day, sky, heaven

先

first, in advance, earlier

之前

before, prior to

最后

last, finally, in the end

Appears in 6 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 后.

然后rán hòuthen, after that, afterwards最后zuì hòulast, finally, in the end之后zhī hòuafter, afterwards, thereafter以后yǐ hòuafter, from now on, in the future后面hòu miànbehind, at the back后来hòu láiafterwards, later

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This word is part of lesson 5.