后
Meanings
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- 1.surname Hou
- 1.empress
- 2.queen
- 3.(archaic) monarch
- 4.ruler
- 1.back
- 2.behind
- 3.rear
- 4.afterwards
- 5.after
- 6.later
- 7.post-
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Wiktionary
- 1.king; ruler; emperor
- 2.queen; empress
- 3.queen
- 4.a surname
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Etymology
Oracle bone inscriptions often wrote 后 as 毓, depicting a woman giving birth. Wang Guowei posits the meaning extended from childbirth to succession, then to empress. In the modern form, the birthing figure would be 𠂆 and the child figure 𠮛. According to Kōjien and 学研漢和大字典, ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 人 (“person (variant form)”) + 口 (“hole”) — a depiction of a person's (人) anus, with the additional meaning of “behind”, “rear”, as well as coming to mean “emperor/empress”, who would live in a palace “behind” worldly troubles. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-qow (“head”). Cognate with Tibetan གོ (go, “head; headman”), མགོ (mgo, “head, top, beginning”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
有人站在墙后。
Someone is standing behind the wall.
他藏到了门后。
He hid behind the door.
他向后跌倒了。
He fell backward.
他藏到了门后。
He hid himself behind the door.
我十分钟后有空。
I will be free in ten minutes.
你多久后需要它？
How soon do you need it?
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Derived terms
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