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后人

hòu rén

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 後人

后人 (hòu rén) means "later generation". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 后人 means

1. later generation

The characters in 后人

• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 人rénperson; people

Example sentences

• 前人铺路，后人行路。
  Qiánrén pūlù, hòurén xínglù.
  One generation builds the street that the next will travel on.

Words containing 后人

• 不甘后人bù gān hòu rén(idiom) not want to be outdone; not content to lag behind
• 前人栽树，后人乘凉qián rén zāi shù , hòu rén chéng liángto enjoy the benefits of the hard work of one's predecessors. (idiom)

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