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

behind the scenes
three days from now / day after day after tomorrow
three years from now / year after year after next year
after this / from then on
one is bound for good fortune after surviving a great disaster (proverb)
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
to manipulate from behind the scenes / to pull the strings
news from behind the scenes / stage gossip
malign agent who manipulates from behind the scenes / hidden hand
grave consequence; serious repercussion
grave consequence / serious repercussion
after this / afterwards / next

Sentences with 後

後 currently does not appear in any sentence.