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之后

zhī hòu

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 之後

之后 (zhī hòu) means "after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 之后 means

1. after; behind
2. (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then

The characters in 之后

• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch

Example sentences

• 之后呢？
  And afterward?
• 他在栏杆之后。
  He is behind the railing.
• 我之后再考虑。
  I'll think about it later.
• 四月之后是五月。
  May comes after April.
• 他十分钟之后来。
  He came after ten minutes.
• 我之后该怎幺做？
  What should I do later?

Words containing 之后

• 在此之后zài cǐ zhī hòuafter this; afterwards; next
• 百年之后bǎi nián zhī hòu(idiom; euphemism) after (sb's) death

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