Kanji1 / 9
後 kanji
behind, back, later
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ゴコウ
Kun readings
のちうしろうしろあとおくれる
Words with 後
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —灰色後家蜘蛛brown widow (Latrodectus geometricus); brown button; grey widow; brown black widow; house button spider; geometric button spider
- —産後の肥立ちconvalescence after childbirth; recovering after giving birth
- —前後を忘れるto lose one's common sense (e.g. in excitement or intoxication); to forget the situation one's in; to lose oneself (in something)
- —後生一生の頼みextremely important or once in a lifetime request
- —人後に落ちないto be second to none (in)
- —産後サポーターpostpartum pelvic support belt
- —即位後朝見の儀First Audience after the Ascension to the Throne
- —イタチの最後っ屁final emergency measure; final defence when one is cornered
- —前後の見境もなくwithout considering the consequences; recklessly; imprudently; going overboard
- —最初から最後までfrom beginning to end; from start to finish; from first to last; end-to-end; all the way through
- —放課後児童クラブafter-school childcare center
- —外傷後ストレス障害post-traumatic stress disorder; PTSD
- —水入り二番後撮り直しrematch due to overlong (over 10 min) bout
- —心的外傷後ストレス障害post-traumatic stress disorder; PTSD
- —鶏口となるも牛後となる勿れbetter be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow
- —最後に笑う者が最もよく笑うhe who laughs last, laughs best
- —已後after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after
- —嚮後hereafter
- —而後thereafter
- —落後straggling; falling behind; being left behind; dropping out; falling behind the ranks; falling out of line