後

後 (radical 60, 彳+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹人女戈水 (HOVIE), four-corner 2224₇, composition ⿰彳⿱幺夊)

• 䵈, 𠷴, 𢖕/𢖖

• KangXi: page 366, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10098
• Dae Jaweon: page 688, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 822, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5F8C

Historical forms of the character 後
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 彳 + 幺 + 夊.

Note that the simplified form 后 (OC *ɡoːʔ, *ɡoːs) is also a traditional character on its own, with a different meaning.

後

1. behind; rear; back

   Antonyms: 前 (qián)

2. later; after; afterwards

   以後 / 以后  ―  yǐhòu  ―  after

   然後 / 然后  ―  ránhòu  ―  after, afterwards

3. descendants; offsprings

   無後 / 无后  ―  wúhòu  ―  to lack male offspring

4. anus
5. A surname​.

• “Entry #4914”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. behind, after

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ご (go, Jōyō)
• Kun: あと (ato, 後, Jōyō); うしろ (ushiro, 後ろ, Jōyō); おくれ (okure, 後れ); おくれる (okureru, 後れる, Jōyō); しり (shiri, 後); しりえ (shirie, 後え); のち (nochi, 後, Jōyō); ゆり (yuri, 後)
• Nanori: こし (koshi); し (shi); しい (shī)

Originally an extension of 跡 (ato, “footprint; leftover”), itself a compound of 足 (a, “foot”) +‎ 所 (to, “place”).[1][2][3]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) あ​と [áꜜtò] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][4]
  • IPA^(key): [a̠to̞]

後 (hiragana あと, rōmaji ato)

1. (spatially) the back, the rear, behind
2. (temporally) later, afterwards, some time after the present

   後 (あと)で連絡 (れんらく)します。

   Ato de renraku shimasu.

   I'll contact you later.

3. the rest

Probably from Old Japanese [Term?]. Usage examples appear in texts from at least the 900s.[1] Ultimate derivation unknown.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) うしろ [ùshíró] (Heiban – [0])[2][4]
  • IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝɕiɾo̞]

• 後ろ (more common)

後 (hiragana うしろ, rōmaji ushiro)

1. the back, the rear (both spatially and temporally)
2. one's backside

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 遅れる (okureru, “to be late; to be delayed; to come after something else”). Examples appear from at least the 1300s.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) おくれ [òkúré] (Heiban – [0])[2][4]
  • IPA^(key): [o̞kɯ̟ᵝɾe̞]

• 後れ, 遅れ (more common)

後 (hiragana おくれ, rōmaji okure)

1. something later, after, or behind
2. inferiority
3. uncertainty, nervousness, indecision

From Old Japanese [Term?]. Ultimate derivation unknown.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) しり​ [shìríꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[2][4]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕiɾʲi]

• 尻 (much more common)

後 (hiragana しり, rōmaji shiri)

1. Alternative spelling of 尻: behind, tail, rump, butt, posterior

From Old Japanese [Term?]. Compound of 尻 (shiri, “butt, tail, rear”) +‎ 方 (e, “side, facing, way, direction”).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) しりえ​ [shìríéꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[2]
  • (Tokyo) しりえ [shìríé] (Heiban – [0])[2][4]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕiɾʲie̞]

• 後方

後 (hiragana しりえ, rōmaji shirie)

1. the rear, back, or backside of something
2. the rearward or backward direction
3. the portion of a palace where a queen or other female imperial consort lives

From Old Japanese [Term?]. Ultimate derivation unknown.

• (Tokyo) のち​ [nòchíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[2][4]
• (Tokyo) のち [nòchí] (Heiban – [0])[2][4]
• IPA^(key): [no̞t͡ɕi]

後 (hiragana のち, rōmaji nochi)

1. later, afterwards, some time after the present

   晴 (は)れのち雨 (あめ)

   hare nochi ame

   rains after sunshine

From Old Japanese [Term?]. Ultimate derivation unknown. May be cognate with より (yori, “from; after”).

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [jɯ̟ᵝɾʲi]

後 (hiragana ゆり, rōmaji yuri)

1. (obsolete) later, afterwards, some time after the present

From Middle Chinese 後 (ɦəuX, ɦəuH, “after”). Classified as the tōon or "Tang sound", so likely borrowed from the dialects spoken during the Tang dynasty.

• On’yomi: Tōon
  • (Tokyo) ご [gò] (Heiban – [0])[2][4]
  • IPA^(key): [ɡo̞]

後 (hiragana ご, rōmaji go)

1. later, afterwards, some time after the present

後 (hiragana ご, rōmaji -go)

1. after

From Middle Chinese 後 (ɦəuX, “after”). Classified as the kan'on, so likely a later borrowing. Compare modern Mandarin reading hòu.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • IPA^(key): [ko̞ː]

後 (hiragana こう, rōmaji kō-)

1. prefixing element in kanji compounds, adding a meaning of later, after, following, rearward

Only used in compounds. Never used in isolation.

後 • (hu) (hangeul 후, McCune–Reischauer hu, Yale hwu)

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後 (hậu)

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