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
- 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.
- 天tiānHSK 1
day; sky; heaven
- 后hòuHSK 1
empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; ruler
- 今天jīn tiānHSK 1
today; at the present; now
- 最后zuì hòuHSK 1
final; last; finally; ultimate
- 然后rán hòuHSK 2
then; after that; afterwards
- 之后zhī hòuHSK 4
after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
- 以后yǐ hòuHSK 2
after; later; afterwards; following; later on; in the future
- 明天míng tiānHSK 1
tomorrow
- 昨天zuó tiānHSK 1
yesterday
- 后来hòu láiHSK 2
afterwards; later; newly arrived
- 后面hòu mianHSK 3
the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards
- 天气tiān qìHSK 1
weather
- 背后bèi hòuHSK 3
behind; at the back; in the rear; behind sb's back
- 聊天liáo tiān
to chat; to gossip
- 后悔hòu huǐHSK 5
to regret; to feel remorse
- 夏天xià tiānHSK 2
summer
- 后果hòu guǒHSK 3
consequences; aftermath
- 天堂tiān tángHSK 6
paradise; heaven
- 冬天dōng tiānHSK 2
winter
- 天空tiān kōngHSK 3
sky
- 天使tiān shǐHSK 7
angel
- 整天zhěng tiānHSK 3
all day long; whole day
- 今后jīn hòuHSK 2
hereafter; henceforth; in the future; from now on
- 随后suí hòuHSK 5
soon after