Chinese symbol for “rear”
后方
hòu fāng
Traditional: 後方
the rear; far behind the front line
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rear is 后方 (hòu fāng), defined as: the rear; far behind the front line.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “rear”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 养育 (養育) | yǎng yù | to rear; to bring up |
| 后 (後) | hòu | back; behind |
| 后面 (後面) | hòu mian | the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back |
| 豢 | huàn | to rear; to raise (animals) |
| 饲育 (飼育) | sì yù | to rear (an animal) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 后方.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 最后 (最後) | zuì hòu | final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end |
| 之后 (之後) | zhī hòu | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
| 然后 (然後) | rán hòu | then; after that; afterwards |
| 以后 (以後) | yǐ hòu | after; later |
| 后来 (後來) | hòu lái | afterwards; later; newly arrived |
| 后面 (後面) | hòu mian | the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back |
| 地方 | dì fāng | region; regional (away from the central administration) |
| 方式 | fāng shì | way; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc); 种 (zhǒng) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “rear”.
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.