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Chinese symbol for “backfield”

后卫
hòu wèi
Traditional: 後衛
rear guard; backfield; fullback

The closest CC-CEDICT match for backfield is 后卫 (hòu wèi), defined as: rear guard; backfield; fullback.

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Characters and stroke order

后 hòu
after; behind, rear; descendants
radical 30 ⼝ · 6 strokes
卫 wèi
to guard, to protect, to defend
radical 26 ⼙ · 3 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 后卫.

WordPinyinMeaning
最后 (最後)zuì hòufinal; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
之后 (之後)zhī hòuafter; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
然后 (然後)rán hòuthen; after that; afterwards
以后 (以後)yǐ hòuafter; later
后来 (後來)hòu láiafterwards; later; newly arrived
后面 (後面)hòu mianthe back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back
卫生 (衛生)wèi shēnghygienic; sanitary; hygiene; sanitation
卫星 (衛星)wèi xīng(aerospace) satellite; (astronomy) satellite; moon

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.