Dictionary › 后事

后事

hòu shì

2-character word Traditional 後事

What 后事 means

1. future events
2. and what happened next... (in fiction)
3. funeral arrangements

The characters in 后事

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

Words containing 后事

• 身后事shēn hòu shìmatters to attend to after sb's death (esp. funeral arrangements)
• 前事不忘，后事之师qián shì bù wàng , hòu shì zhī shīdon't forget past events, they can guide you in future (idiom)…

Sounds the same

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

• 后世later generations

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hòu shì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.