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
- —昼食後after lunch
- —朝食後after breakfast
- —退職後after retirement; after resigning
- —午後一first thing in the afternoon
- —後七日January 8-14
- —肥後椿higo camellia (Camellia japonica var.)
- —劣後債subordinated debt
- —後世方Edo-period school of Chinese medicine based on post-Jin and Yuan teachings
- —最後屁stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel; final desperate tactic
- —食後酒digestif
- —接合後postzygotic
- —使用後after use
- —出産後postnatal; post partum
- —産後鬱postpartum depression; postnatal depression
- —事後審judicial review by a higher court without introducing new evidence
- —数年後a few years later
- —後の先counterattack; striking one's opponent immediately after defending an incoming attack
- —順後業prarabdha karma; karma whose cause is in the present life but whose effect comes in the life after the next life or later
- —劣後株deferred stock
- —午後休taking the afternoon off; time off during the afternoon