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U+5F8C, 後
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F8C

[U+5F8B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5F8D]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 60, +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹人女戈水 (HOVIE), four-corner 22247, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 366, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10098
  • Dae Jaweon: page 688, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 822, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5F8C
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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In oracle bone script, ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (thread) + (foot) – a foot bound by a rope, thus lagging behind. The component was added afterwards to emphasize this action.

Note that the simplified form is also a traditional character on its own, with a different meaning.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwak (below) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan འོག ('og, below), Burmese အောက် (auk, under; below), Burmese နောက် (nauk, behind) (from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔok (lower side; below)).

Pronunciation


Note: heu3 - only in 後生.
Note:
  • Sixian:
    • hêu - vernacular;
    • heu - literary.
  • Meixian:
    • hêu1 - vernacular;
    • hêu4 - literary.

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Definitions

  1. behind; rear; back
       hòuyuàn   backyard
       bèihòu   behind
    Antonym: (qián)
  2. later; after; afterwards
       hòu   after
       ránhòu   after, afterwards
    畢業毕业   bìyè hòu   after graduation
       sān tiān hòu   after three days
  3. last
       hòu wǔ míng   the last five
  4. descendant; offspring
       hòu   to lack male offspring
    南部新書作者錢易吳越錢鏐 [MSC, trad.]
    南部新书作者钱易吴越钱镠 [MSC, simp.]
    “Nánbù Xīnshū” zuòzhě Qián Yì, nǎi Wúyuèwáng Qián Liú zhī hòu. [Pinyin]
    Qian Yi, the author of A New Book in the South, is a descendant of Qian Liu, the King of Wuyue.
  5. post-
  6. (literary) anus
    寧為雞口無為牛 [MSC, trad.]
    宁为鸡口无为牛 [MSC, simp.]
    níngwèijīkǒuwúwèiniúhòu [Pinyin]
    Better be the beak of a chicken than the anus of an ox (proverb)
  7. a surname

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (こう) (); () (go)
  • Korean: 후(後) (hu)
  • Vietnamese: hậu ()

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