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后

后 (empress, queen, after, behind, back, later)

  • JLPT N1
  • 6 strokes
  • Grade 6
  • Radical 口
  • #1583 most frequent

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On'yomi 音読み
コウゴ
Kun'yomi 訓読み
きさき

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Example sentences 3

配偶者は「皇后」。

His spouse is called 'Kogo.'

光明皇后を佐保山東陵に葬る。

Empress Komyo was buried in Sahoyama no higashi no misasagi (the eastern imperial tomb in Saho-yama mountain).

そこで、后の弟橘媛が自ら命に替わって入水すると、波は自ずから凪いだ。

At that time, his wife Oto Tachibana Hime leaped into the sea on his behalf, and the waves became calm by themselves.

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