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事后

shì hòu

2-character word Traditional 事後

What 事后 means

1. after the event
2. in hindsight
3. in retrospect

The characters in 事后

• 事shìmatter; thing; item
• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch

Words starting with 事后

• 事后聪明shì hòu cōng mingwise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it
• 事后诸葛亮shì hòu Zhū gě Liàngperson who is wise after the event

Sounds the same

Read shì hòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 侍候to serve; to wait upon