落後

落

luò

后

後

hòu

to fall behind / to lag (in technology etc) / backward / to retrogress

Characters and words in 落後

落

là = l + a4

to leave out / to be missing / to leave behind or forget to bring / to lag or fall behind

落

lào = l + ao4

colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds

落

luò = lu + o4

to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement

落 = 艹 + 洛 : Lenny Lemur tried to grow some artificial lawn in the observatory's bathroom, but to no avail. He even put up a star for the light and provided bottled water, but the artificial lawn didn't grow. To make matters worse, the star is about to fall into the bathroom's well.

后

後

hòu = h + ou4

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

后 = ⺁ + 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.