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后天

hòu tiān 4–1

the day after tomorrow; life after birth (the period in which one develops through experiences, contrasted with 天); acquired (not innate or congenital); a posteriori

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
后 · 天
Syllables
2
hòu tiān
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 9,407

Part of speech: n,t

Character by character

  • 后hòu6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 後queen, empress, sovereign; (simp. for 後) behind, rear, after
  • 天tiān4 strokesHSK 1sky, heaven; god, celestial

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 后天见。

    Hòu tiān jiàn

    See you in two days.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 后天. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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