Later in Chinese
later · HSK 1
后
下课后我们去打球吧。 Let's go play ball after class.
Other ways to say later
More words with 后
How do you say later in Chinese?
Later in Chinese is 后 (hòu). You can also say 后来 (hòu lái), 以后 (yǐ hòu), 之后 (zhī hòu), 过后 (guò hòu).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.