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后来

hòu lái

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 後來

后来 (hòu lái) means "afterwards; later". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 后来 means

1. afterwards; later
2. newly arrived

The characters in 后来

• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 来láito come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)…

Example sentences

• 他十分钟之后来。
  He came after ten minutes.
• 他后来写信给总统。
  Later he wrote to the president.
• 伊凡后来被开除了。
  Ivan was fired afterwards.
• 你后来还来过这儿吗？
  Have you been here since?
• 园丁后来发现就是凶手。
  Yuándīng hòulái fāxiàn jiù shì xiōngshǒu.
  The gardener turned out to be the murderer.

Words starting with 后来

• 后来者居上hòu lái zhě jū shàngthe latecomers surpass their predecessors
• 后来居上hòu lái jū shàng(idiom) see 后来者居上

Where 后来 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time adverbs & temporal expressions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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