後

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

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

"walk slowly" component in Chinese characters / see also 冬字頭|冬字头[dong1 zi4 tou2]

step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍[chi4 chu4]

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

90s generation

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

nature versus nurture

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