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
- N5午後Popularafternoon; p.m.
- N4最後Popularend; conclusion; last; final; latest; most recent; no sooner than; once; right after (often having negative consequences); one's final moments
- N3後Popularafter
- N3今後Popularfrom now on; hereafter
- N2以後Popularafter this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after
- N2前後Popularfront and rear; front and back; before and behind; back and forth; before and after; around; about; approximately; order; context; consequences; just when; around the time of; inversion; reversion; getting out of order; co-occurring; happening at the same time
- N2直後Popularimmediately following
- N1背後Popularback; rear; background; behind the scenes
- N1明々後日Popularin three days' time; two days after tomorrow
- N1産後after childbirth; postpartum
- —後妻Popularsecond wife
- —後手Popularlosing initiative; being forestalled; moving second; person with the second move; gote; move that does not require an immediate response from the opponent; rear guard
- —後日Popularin the future; another day; later
- —死後Popularafter death
- —事後Popularafter; post; ex-; after the fact; ex post
- —食後Popularafter a meal
- —生後Popularpost-natal; since birth
- —年後Popularyears later
- —老後Popularold age
- —没後Popularafter death; posthumously