back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-

= + 𠮛 : Mnemonic symbol: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. Zenobia (后) and Hamlet (h) want to bake banana bread in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), but they don't know how. Behind (后) a banana tree (⺁) they study a scroll (𠮛) on which the recipe is written.

後 character breakdown

surname Yao
youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout

= : Mnemonic symbol from 幺点, ace: an ace card.

= : Maud Younger is going to a poker tournament in the aorta. Before she enters, she hides an ace in her fake nose in front of the aorta.
"walk slowly" component in Chinese characters / see also 冬字頭|冬字头[dong1 zi4 tou2]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: In high heels, one can walk only slowly. James II of England (zh) is wearing high heels (夂) inside the space station's living room (Ø3). He's not only walking slowly (夂), he even slips on a banana (丿)! He's lucky to land on a boxing glove (又) though.
step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍[chi4 chu4]

= 丿 + : Left foot: Black sneakers.

Characters with 後 as component

後 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 後

afterwards / following / later / after
after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future
hereafter / henceforth / in the future / from now on
after the event / in hindsight / in retrospect
early or late / priority / in succession / one after another
think again and again before acting (idiom); consider carefully in advance
first decapitate then present your trophy (idiom); act first, report later
regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
wise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it
a genius in retrospect (idiom); hindsight is 20-20
(idiom) not want to be outdone / not content to lag behind
(idiom) not want to be outdone / not content to lag behind
in order of arrival / first come, first served
opposite of 先禮後兵|先礼后兵[xian1 li3 hou4 bing1]
The first concern is affairs of state, enjoying the pleasure comes later. Quotation from essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹[Fan4 Zhong4 yan1]
to be born with a weak constitution and suffer from ill health during one's life / (fig.) to be problematic from the start, and get even worse over time
There are three ways to be unfilial; having no sons is the worst. (citation from Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3])
order of priority / sequential order

Sentences with 後

後 currently does not appear in any sentence.