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Mythic Mandarin

后来 (hòu lái): meaning and stroke order

后来 (hòu lái) means afterwards; later, newly arrived.

后来

Simplified
后来
Traditional
後來
Pinyin
hòu lái

Stroke order of 后来

后

  • Hòu surname Hou
  • hòu empress; queen
  • hòu back; behind
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 後

Stroke by stroke

来

  • lái to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 來

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 后来

  1. hòu lái Traditional 後來
    • afterwards; later
    • newly arrived

Radicals of the characters

后
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes · built from 𠂋 and 口
来
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 7 strokes · built from 未 and 丷

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

后来 in our stories

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  • 后来，她找到了一个房间：又干净又亮，一个月只要两千块。

    hòulái tā zhǎodào le yí gè fángjiān yòu gānjìng yòu liàng yí gè yuè zhǐ yào liǎngqiān kuài

    Then she finds a room that is clean and bright, and only two thousand yuan a month.

    From the story The cheap room HSK 3

  • 后来，这一天就成了中秋节。

    hòulái zhè yì tiān jiù chéng le Zhōngqiūjié

    Later that day became the Mid-Autumn Festival.

    From the story Chang'e flies to the moon HSK 3

  • 后来，两个人结婚了，日子过得越来越好。

    hòulái liǎng gè rén jiéhūn le rìzi guò de yuèláiyuè hǎo

    Later the two of them married, and life got better and better.

    From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4

Stories using 后来

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).