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
- —肥後花菖蒲Iris ensata; Higo Japanese iris
- —肥後ずいきdried giant elephant ear stem from Higo province (eaten or used as a sex aid)
- —予後診断医prognostician
- —後手に回るto be forestalled; to fall behind; to be one step behind
- —行かず後家old maid; spinster
- —交配後隔離postmating isolation
- —接合後隔離postzygotic isolation
- —翻訳後修飾post-translational modification; PTM
- —産後抑鬱症postpartum depression; postnatal depression
- —最後の手段last resort
- —最後を飾るto cap off; to culminate
- —放課後学習after-school education; cram school education
- —劣後ローンsubordinated loan
- —最初で最後first and last (time, chance, etc.); (the) only
- —後催眠暗示posthypnotic suggestion
- —後手を踏むto be forestalled; to fall behind; to be one step behind
- —後家を立てるto remain faithful to the memory of one's husband and never remarry
- —背赤後家蜘蛛redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti)
- —最後の貸し手lender of last resort
- —最後のとりでlast stand; last bastion; last stronghold; last frontier