Chinese words with 后 character meaning (HSK)

后面

HOU4, MIAN4
rear, back, behind, later, afterwards
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后来

HOU4, LAI2
afterwards, later
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然后

RAN2, HOU4
then (afterwards), after that, afterwards, after
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最后

ZUI4, HOU4
final, last, finally, ultimate
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后悔

HOU4, HUI3
to regret, to repent
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后背

HOU4, BEI4
the back (human anatomy), the back part of sth
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后果

HOU4, GUO3
consequences, aftermath
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落后

LUO4, HOU4
to fall behind, to lag (in technology etc), backward, to retrogress
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后代

HOU4, DAI4
posterity, later periods, later ages, later generations
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后顾之忧

HOU4, GU4, ZHI1, YOU1
fears of trouble in the rear (idiom), family worries (obstructing freedom of action), worries about the future consequences, often in negative expressions, meaning 'no worries about anything'
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后勤

HOU4, QIN2
logistics
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皇后

HUANG2, HOU4
empress, imperial consort
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空前绝后

KONG1, QIAN2, JUE2, HOU4
unprecedented and never to be duplicated, the first and the last, unmatched, unique
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争先恐后

ZHENG1, XIAN1, KONG3, HOU4
striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom), outdoing one another
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