Kilo Lingo

后

hòu

Traditional: 後

HSK 3
#427 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

behind, back; later, after

Stroke order

Stroke order for 后

后

Examples

。

He is standing behind me.

！

See you later!

？

What happened afterwards?

。

The day after tomorrow I am going home.

後 (hòu) - behind, back; later, after.

Related words

房间

room (in a building)

那儿

there, over there (spoken)

衣服

clothes, clothing, garment

由

from, by, due to; to follow

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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