after; behind

Builds 54 distinct compound words — ranked #63 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ゴ・コウ
訓 kun: のち・うし.ろ・あと

Later in time or behind in space. 午後 afternoon, 最後 the last, 以後 from now on.

The ten most common compounds built on 後. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

54compounds built

1,786times those words occur

#84by productivity alone

#76by how often it turns up

Where 後 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 後. Each one opens its own map.

日sun; day明後日#5 者the one who後者#17 食eat; food夕食後#32 明bright; clear; next明後日#64 最most最後#97

Words built on 後

後あと603 uses

午後ごご303 uses 最後さいご174 uses 後悔こうかい122 uses

後ろうしろ95 uses

放課後ほうかご53 uses

今後こんご45 uses

夕食後44 uses

明後日みょうごにち28 uses

死後しご27 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.