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后世

hòu shì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 後世

后世 (hòu shì) means "later generations". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 后世 means

1. later generations

The characters in 后世

• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 世shìlife; age; generation

Sounds the same

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

• 后事future events; and what happened next... (in fiction); funeral arrangements

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