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之后

zhī hòuㄓ ㄏㄡˋ

Sino-Vietnamese: CHI HẬU

Traditional: 之後

HSK 3.0 · 4TOCFL 3

Meaning(locality, time word)

after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then

Examples

  • 下课之后我们去图书馆。

    xià kè zhī hòu wǒ men qù tú shū guǎn.

    After class let's go to the library.

  • 毕业之后，他回越南工作了。

    bì yè zhī hòu, tā huí yuè nán gōng zuò le.

    After graduating, he went back to Vietnam to work.

  • 之后的事情我就不知道了。

    zhī hòu de shì qíng wǒ jiù bù zhī dào le.

    I don't know what happened after that.

Easily confused

  • 以后 — Nearly the same; 以后 alone also means 'in the future'.

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Stroke order

CHI · 3 strokes

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it

HẬU · 6 strokes

surname Hou

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