Chinese symbol for “rearguard”
后备军
hòu bèi jūn
Traditional: 後備軍
rearguard
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rearguard is 后备军 (hòu bèi jūn), defined as: rearguard.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 后备军.
| 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 |
| 准备 (準備) | zhǔn bèi | preparation; to prepare |
| 设备 (設備) | shè bèi | equipment; facilities; installations |
| 军队 (軍隊) | jūn duì | armed forces; troops; measure word: 支 (zhī) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “rearguard”.
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.