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  *後* | 後* | *後
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
HSK 1
final / last / finally / ultimate
HSK 1
then; after that; afterwards
HSK 2
after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future
HSK 2
hereafter / henceforth / in the future / from now on
HSK 2
behind / at the back / in the rear / behind sb's back
HSK 3
to fall behind / to lag (in technology etc) / backward / to retrogress
HSK 3
around / from beginning to end / all around / front and rear
HSK 3
after; behind / (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
HSK 4
soon after
HSK 5
early or late; first and last; priority / in succession; one after another
HSK 5
after this / afterwards / hereafter
HSK 5
after the event
HSK 6
from now on / in the future / time to come
HSK 6
after the event / in hindsight / in retrospect
HSK 6
sometime / someday (in the future)
HSK 7-9
next / later / after that
HSK 7-9
from now on / henceforward
HSK 7-9
in a little while / in a moment / later on
HSK 7-9
behind the scenes
HSK 7-9
striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another
HSK 7-9
to lag behind
HSK 7-9
to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future / to ponder over reasons and connection
HSK 7-9
people born between 1995-01-01 and 1999-12-31 / Gen Z (abbr. for 95後|95 + 00後|00)
henceforth / thereafter / subsequently
to stand back / to go back (in time) / to yield / to make concessions
behind
the back of the head / (fig.) the back of one's mind
after the war / postwar
unprecedented and never to be duplicated / the first and the last / unmatched / unique
the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); to pursue a narrow gain while neglecting a greater danger
postnatal
prognosis
backward
after that / then
to follow everywhere / to always be there for sb at their beck and call
finally
the time after one's death / a place behind sb / (fig.) one's social background
afterwards / then
afternoon
to deal with the aftermath (arising from an accident) / funeral arrangements / reparations
to lack male offspring
to bring up the rear
leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
to banish from one's thoughts / to ignore / to take no notice
postdoc / a postdoctoral position
lit. to look forward and back (idiom) / fig. to consider carefully; to weigh the pros and cons / fig. to be overcautious and indecisive
(military) the enemy's rear / behind enemy lines
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
after liberation (i.e. after the Communist's victory) / after the establishment of PRC in 1949
to have no offspring / never to be seen again; unique
from then on / after / afterwards / thereafter
to bring honor to one's ancestors and benefit future generations (idiom)
regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
chronological
lit. to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again
postoperative; after surgery
after drinking / under the influence of alcohol
it's better to hurry at the start than to rush later (idiom)
thinking and pondering (idiom); to turn sth over in one's mind / to consider repeatedly
after tax
after death / posthumous
later / afterwards
to trip forwards or stumble back (idiom, from Book of Songs); can't get anything right
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
(idiom) not want to be outdone / not content to lag behind
90s generation
(idiom) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study
post-traumatic
after this / afterwards / next
after this / from then on
to postpone / to defer / to delay
from here on
to adjourn / to defer
to push back (progress, the times etc)
backwards / facing back
after a catastrophe / post-traumatic
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, by Claude Debussy based on poem by Stéphane Mallarmé
postsynaptic
economically backward
to follow closely behind sb or sth (idiom)
from that / following from that / after that


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