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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *后* | 后* | *后
empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *后* | 后* | *后
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
HSK 1
final / last / finally / ultimate
HSK 1
after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future
HSK 2
then; after that; afterwards
HSK 2
hereafter / henceforth / in the future / from now on
HSK 2
around / from beginning to end / all around / front and rear
HSK 3
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
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
queen / CL: 個|个,
HSK 6
after the event / in hindsight / in retrospect
HSK 6
from now on / in the future / time to come
HSK 6
empress / imperial consort
HSK 7-9
behind the scenes
HSK 7-9
in a little while; shortly after
HSK 7-9
sometime / someday (in the future)
HSK 7-9
to lag behind
HSK 7-9
next / later / after that
HSK 7-9
striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another
HSK 7-9
from now on / henceforward
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *后* | 后* | *后
surname Hou
after the war / postwar
(military) the enemy's rear / behind enemy lines
Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu 媽祖|妈祖 / Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name)
prognosis
backward
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
after drinking / under the influence of alcohol
afternoon
the time after one's death / a place behind sb / (fig.) one's social background
movie queen; best actress award winner
postdoc; postdoctoral fellow
to deal with the aftermath (arising from an accident) / funeral arrangements / reparations
after death / posthumous
to postpone / to defer / to delay
postnatal
Empress Dowager
to stand back / to go back (in time) / to yield / to make concessions
after tax
diva; famous or accomplished female singer
after that / then
empress dowager
leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
henceforth / thereafter / subsequently
lit. to look forward and back (idiom) / fig. to consider carefully; to weigh the pros and cons / fig. to be overcautious and indecisive
queen ant
to have no offspring / never to be seen again; unique
to bring up the rear
postoperative; after surgery
lit. to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again
unprecedented and never to be duplicated / the first and the last / unmatched / unique
from then on / after / afterwards / thereafter
to follow everywhere / to always be there for sb at their beck and call
finally
to banish from one's thoughts / to ignore / to take no notice
to bring honor to one's ancestors and benefit future generations (idiom)
regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
behind
the back of the head / (fig.) the back of one's mind
empress / imperial consort
to follow closely behind sb or sth (idiom)
later / afterwards
Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (1835-1908), regent 1861-1908
after liberation (i.e. after the Communist's victory) / after the establishment of PRC in 1949
after this / afterwards / next
people born between 1995-01-01 and 1999-12-31 / Gen Z (abbr. for 95後|95 + 00後|00)
postdoc; postdoctoral fellow
afterwards / then
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
from that / following from that / after that
Empress Dowager Ci'an (1837-1881) of Qing
Queen Dowager (in Europe) / widowed queen / Queen mother
(proverb) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study
from here on
chronological
(idiom) not want to be outdone / not content to lag behind
90s generation
Dairy Queen (brand)
after this / from then on
thinking and pondering (idiom); to turn sth over in one's mind / to consider repeatedly
drag queen; female impersonator
to adjourn / to defer
to push back (progress, the times etc)
backwards / facing back
after a catastrophe / post-traumatic
(literary) to have no descendants; to have no son to continue one's lineage
postsynaptic
economically backward
queen bee
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
drag queen
it's better to hurry at the start than to rush later (idiom)

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