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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *下* | 下* | *下
down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *先* | 先* | *先
beforehand; first; earlier / at first; originally / for the time being; for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *晚* | 晚* | *晚
evening / night / late
HSK 1
to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later
HSK 3
goodbye / see you again later
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *遲* | 遲* | *遲
late / delayed / slow
HSK 5
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  *總* | 總* | *總
(bound form) general; overall / to sum up / in every case; always; invariably / anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later / surely / (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理 or 總編|总编 etc
HSK 3
there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late
HSK 4
after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future
HSK 2
to arrive late
HSK 4
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 3
afterwards; later / newly arrived
HSK 2
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *後* | 後* | *後
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
HSK 1
old-fashioned / out of date / to be later than the time stipulated or agreed upon
HSK 6
lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (proverb) / fig. something unpleasant or embarrassing cannot be avoided forever; sooner or later one must face it
(of trains etc) late / delayed / behind schedule / light dinner
HSK 4
to turn round; to turn one's head / later; by and by
HSK 5
to have a child late in life (esp. said of a father)
cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits
HSK 7-9
behind / the back / the rear / later / afterwards / (in) the future
HSK 4
to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *肝* | 肝* | *肝
liver (CL:葉|叶) / (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game) / (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy
HSK 6
the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later
early or late; first and last; priority / in succession; one after another
HSK 5
afterward; later; subsequently; following that
HSK 5
(idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night
in a moment / later / also pr. [dai1 hui3 r5] or [dai1 hui5 r5]
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *燕* | 燕* | *燕
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕 (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409–436) / surname Yan
Zhu Wen (852-912), military governor 節度使|节度使 at the end of Tang, founder of Later Liang of the Five Dynasties (907-923), also known as Emperor Taizu of Later Liang 後梁太祖|后梁太祖
Jin Tianhe (1874–1947), late-Qing poet and novelist, co-author of A Flower in a Sinful Sea 孽海花
lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom) / fig. to act belatedly / better late than never / to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
HSK 7-9
(neologism, attested by 2014) (slang) Are you interested? (originally an invitation for casual sex, later generalized as a playful or humorous invitation for any activity)
Ant Check Later, consumer credit service offered by Ant Financial Services 螞蟻金服|蚂蚁金服
Li Boyuan 李伯元 or Li Baojia (1867-1906), late Qing journalist, novelist and social observer, author of Observations on the current state of officialdom 官場現形記|官场现形记
to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night
HSK 6
very late at night
HSK 7-9
Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible)
lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later
to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides
HSK 6
newcomer; new recruit; fresh talent / newlywed, esp. new bride / newlywed couple; bride and groom / (paleoanthropology) later-period Homo sapiens
HSK 6
as soon as possible / at the first opportunity / the sooner the better / before it's too late
HSK 7-9
to wait a moment / later / in awhile
morning and evening / (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later; one of these days / (coll.) (this, or that) point of time / (dialect) at some time in the future
HSK 6
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢|蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty
to stay up late or all night
HSK 7-9
deceased father / my late father
the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏, 中伏 and 末伏, which run consecutively over a period from mid-July to late August
later / after a while
ex-wife / late wife
later generation
HSK 7-9
Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People (late 1890s)
late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century
rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)
midnight snack / late-night snack
next / later / after that
HSK 7-9
(Tw) (Internet slang) too late, someone posted that already (supposedly from "lag" misspelled as "leg")
East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer)
sooner or later
HSK 7-9
descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations
HSK 7-9
the late / deceased
one's late teacher
(idiom) up to the present / even now / now (in contrast with the past) / at this late hour
then it's too late (colloquial)
History of Eastern Han (later Han), third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Fan Ye 范曄|范晔 in 445 during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋, 120 scrolls
to select sb for a position without announcing the decision until later / to decide behind closed doors / all cut and dried
lit. one cannot bite one's own navel (idiom) / fig. too late for regrets
ancestor; forefather / sb's late father
the late Qing / late 19th and early 20th century China
posthumous title of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤 (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金 (from 1616)
Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
Burgundy (Bourgogne), a medieval kingdom and later a powerful duchy, now a region of France
Fu Zuoyi (1895–1974), Chinese general and politician, Nationalist commander who negotiated the peaceful surrender of Beiping (Beijing) to the Communists in 1949, and later held senior posts in the PRC government
to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood) / a statue created through such a process
late (with a task etc) / slow
HSK 7-9
undisclosed account / to settle matters later / to blame sb after the event
one's later years
HSK 7-9
the three sacrificial animals (originally cow, sheep and pig; later pig, chicken and fish)
History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Ban Gu 班固 in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
later period / end stage / terminal
HSK 7-9
(Chinese chess) moving the cannon after moving the horse away / (fig.) a useless action or comment; sth done after it's too late
HSK 7-9
one's late wife
the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
too late for regrets (idiom); It is useless to repent after the event.
too late to be sorry
it is not too late (idiom)
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
late stage / later period
HSK 7-9
to come late and leave first / last in, first out (LIFO)
the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later
Sinian (c. 800-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
end of month / late in the month
Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China
too late for regrets (idiom); It is useless to repent after the event.
inclining to the west (e.g. of the sun after noon, indicating lateness of the day)
WeChat's "buy now, pay later" service
Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü Bu 呂布|吕布
to pay sb else's expense with the expectation of being reimbursed by that person later

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