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 + : Mnemonic symbol for the step with the left foot: a black sneaker, because black sneakers are popular at least with the leftists I met.

Rosa Luxemburg (亻) just finished her banana (丿) and throws the peel over her shoulder in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Charlie Chaplin (彳), wearing a black sneaker on his left foot, manages to step on the banana peel with his left foot and fall over even in zero gravity.

Characters with 後 as component

後 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 後

to deal with the aftermath (arising from an accident) / funeral arrangements / reparations
to advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom)
postdoc / a postdoctoral position
(idiom) to be a survivor of a calamity
Second Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians
reconstruction loan provided by Great Powers to Yuan Shikai in 1913
from then on / after / afterwards / thereafter
(lit.) chest sticking to back / (fig.) famished / (of several persons) packed chest to back
lit. the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart (idiom); fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor / learn from past mistake / once bitten twice shy
to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another
to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another

Sentences with 後

後 currently does not appear in any sentence.