後
後 — hu
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 뒤 후
- Romanization
- hu
- English
- behind, rear, after; descendents
- Mandarin
- hòu
- Japanese on'yomi
- ゴ, コウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- のち うし.ろ うしろ あと おく.れる
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #26 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 彳 (60, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5F8C
How 後 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 後 as a ideographic compound involving 幺, 夊.
Korean example words with 後
- 막후幕後 Korean gloss: 막의 뒤
- 연후然後 Korean gloss: 그런 뒤
- 노후老後 Korean gloss: 늙어진 뒤
- 별후別後 Korean gloss: 헤어진 뒤
- 산후山後 Korean gloss: 산의 뒤쪽
- 생후生後 Korean gloss: 태어난 후
- 적후敵後 Korean gloss: 적의 후방
- 후단後端 Korean gloss: 뒤쪽의 끝
- 후미後尾 Korean gloss: 뒤쪽의 끝
- 세후歲後 Korean gloss: 설을 쇤 뒤
- 후폐後弊 Korean gloss: 뒷날의 폐단
- 망후亡後 Korean gloss: 죽고 난 이후
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 後
- 後あと behind; rear; after
- 午後ごご afternoon; p.m.
- 今後こんご from now on; hereafter
- 最後さいご end; conclusion; last
- 戦後せんご postwar period; period after Second World War
- 後半こうはん second half; latter half
- 直後ちょくご immediately following
- 後援こうえん support; backing
- 後継こうけい succession; successor
- 後任こうにん successor
- 終了後しゅうりょうご after the end (of something)
- 後退こうたい retreat; falling back; moving backwards
Other hanja read “후”
Other hanja with radical 彳
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