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
- —銃後home front
- —絶後(of a kind) never to be seen again
- —雨後after rain
- —牛後rump of a cow; low-ranking member of a large group
- —後漢Later Han dynasty (of China; 25-220 CE); Eastern Han dynasty; Later Han dynasty (of China; 947-950 CE)
- —後座main performance; headliner; latter half of a formal tea ceremony (in which the tea is actually consumed)
- —後炭second adding of charcoal to the fire (in tea ceremony)
- —築後after construction; after building; since construction
- —後夜period from midnight until the early morning; around 4am
- —後仏Maitreya (buddha appearing 5.67 billion years after the death of Gautama)
- —用後after use
- —卒後after graduation
- —後世the next world; afterlife; life after death
- —劣後subordination
- —筑後Chikugo (former province located in the south of present-day Fukuoka Prefecture)
- —肥後Higo (former province located in present-day Kumamoto Prefecture)
- —丹後Tango (former province located in the north of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)
- —羽後Ugo (former province located in parts of present-day Akita Prefecture)
- —備後Bingo (former province located in the east of present-day Hiroshima Prefecture)
- —先後before and after; earlier and later; order; sequence; occurring almost simultaneously; inversion (of order); black and white