empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler
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.

后 character breakdown

Character component without intrinsic meaning

𠮛 = + : This character looks like a scroll, on which your aim is written. A scroll with the paper made from mandarins (口), and a flute (一) to wrap it all up.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: two and more bananas (丿) are part of a larger banana tree (⺁).

Characters with 后 as component

to meet unexpectedly
dirt / disgrace
disgrace / to revile
thick
surname Hou / place name
copulate / good
(anatomy) epiphysis
see 鱯|鳠[hu4]

Words with 后

Empress Dowager
three years from now / year after year after next year
one is bound for good fortune after surviving a great disaster (proverb)
Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu 媽祖|妈祖[Ma1 zu3] / Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name)
Tin Hau MTR station (Eastern District, Hong Kong Island)
to peter out / to lose momentum / to lose steam
the best part of the show is yet to come / (with ironic tone) the worst is yet to come / you ain't seen nothin' yet
to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4])
Chahar Right Rear banner or Caxar Baruun Garyn Xoit khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4], Inner Mongolia
thinking and pondering (idiom); to turn sth over in one's mind / to consider repeatedly
empress / imperial consort
Queen Victoria (1819-1901), reigned 1837-1901

Sentences with 后

zì
cóng
bì
mǎ
we̅n
lái
cǐ
yǐ
hòu