Chinese symbol for “sometime”
日后
rì hòu
Traditional: 日後
sometime; someday (in the future)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sometime is 日后 (rì hòu), defined as: sometime; someday (in the future).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “sometime”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 日后.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 今日 | jīn rì | today |
| 日子 | rì zi | day; a (calendar) date |
| 日常 | rì cháng | day-to-day; daily; everyday |
| 日报 (日報) | rì bào | daily newspaper |
| 每日 | měi rì | daily; (soup etc) of the day |
| 日期 | rì qī | date |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sometime”.
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.