后
Simplified/traditional character
后 English definition
hòu
- back
- behind
- rear
- afterwards
- after
- later
- empress
- queen
hòu
- back
- behind
- rear
- afterwards
- after
- later
- empress
- queen
HSK levels
Characters with the same pronunciation
- 㫗 : 𠂤
- 候 : to wait; to inquire after; to watch; season; climate; (old) period of five days;
- 厚 : thick; deep or profound; kind; generous; rich or strong in flavor; to favor; to stress;
- 垕 : thick;
- 堠 : mounds for beacons;
- 豞 : grunting of pigs;
- 逅 : to meet unexpectedly;
- 鄇 : place name;
- 鲎 : horseshoe crab;
Sentences examples with 后
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商店在学校后面。
Shāngdiàn zài xuéxiào hòumiàn. -
我去火车站后面。
Wǒ qù huǒchē zhàn hòumiàn. -
后来我再也没见过他。
Hòulái wǒ zài yě méi jiànguò tā. -
我要先写完作业，然后再看电视。
Wǒ yào xiān xiě wán zuòyè, ránhòu zài kàn diànshì. -
你先去，我一个小时后再去。
Nǐ xiān qù, wǒ yīgè xiǎoshí hòu zài qù.
Words containing 后, by HSK level
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HSK 1 vocabulary list
- 后面 (hòu miàn) : rear; back; behind; later; afterwards
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HSK 3 vocabulary list
- 后来 (hòu lái) : afterwards; later
- 然后 (rán hòu) : then (afterwards); after that; afterwards; after
- 最后 (zuì hòu) : final; last; finally; ultimate
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HSK 4 vocabulary list
- 后悔 (hòu huǐ) : to regret; to repent
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HSK 5 vocabulary list
- 后背 (hòu bèi ) : the back (human anatomy); the back part of sth;
- 后果 (hòu guǒ) : consequences; aftermath
- 落后 (luò hòu) : to fall behind; to lag (in technology etc); backward; to retrogress
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HSK 6 vocabulary list
- 后代 (hòu dài) : posterity; later periods; later ages; later generations
- 后顾之忧 (hòu gù zhī yōu) : fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action); worries about the future consequences; often in negative expressions, meaning 'no worries about anything'
- 后勤 (hòu qín) : logistics
- 皇后 (huáng hòu) : empress; imperial consort
- 空前绝后 (kōng qián jué hòu) : unprecedented and never to be duplicated; the first and the last; unmatched; unique
- 争先恐后 (zhēng xiān kǒng hòu) : striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another