后

after, behind

No. 42 most used · 0.24% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 421.

How it's built

• 口mouth

A way to remember it

A mouth (口) tucked under a sloping roof: what comes after.

Words

• 然后

  rán hòu

  then; after that; afterwards
• 最后

  zuì hòu

  final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
• 之后

  zhī hòu

  after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
• 以后

  yǐ hòu

  after; later; afterwards
• 后面

  hòu mian

  the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards
• 后来

  hòu lái

  afterwards; later; newly arrived

Sentences

• 从此以后我自由了。

  cóng cǐ yǐ hòu wǒ zì yóu le

  Now I am free.
• 你的后门是开着的。

  nǐ de hòu mén shì kāi zhe de

  Your back door was open.
• 我会在三天后回来。

  wǒ huì zài sān tiān hòu huí lai

  I'll be back in three days.
• 他三个小时以后回家。

  tā sān gè xiǎo shí yǐ hòu huí jiā

  He went home three hours later.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.