Zi:后
后 [hòu] queen; (F後) after, behind [gòu] (=逅遘) [xiàng]
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后 depicts a woman giving birth. The dripping 㐬 (liú) baby is upside down; in the modern character 后 only its 口 head remains.
后 occurs most often as the simple form of 後 hòu ‘after’, whose full form 後 is composed of 彳 (chì) ‘footstep’, 幺 (yāo) ‘threads’ and 夂 (zhǐ) ‘foot’.
The convention of writing 后 instead of 後 is at least as old as the Book of Rites (禮記), one of the Confucian classics.
►references: Guǎngyùn:325.15,437.34; Wieger:30c; Karlgren:AD78,81,GS112a,GSR112a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.580.1; Mathews:2144; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:176.01; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:031.0.07
►components: 𠂆一口
►Cantonese: hauh-
<cdl char='后' uni='540E' points='0,0 128,124' radical='K4D1'>
<comp char='𠂋' uni='2008B' points='0,0 128,128' />
<comp char='口' uni='53E3' points='48,80 110,120' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='𠂋' uni='2008B'>
<comp char='𠂆' uni='20086' points='0,0 110,128' />
<stroke type='h' points='36,50 128,50' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='𠂆' uni='20086'>
<stroke type='p' points='128,0 30,22' />
<stroke type='wp' points='30,22 0,128' tail='long' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='口' uni='53E3' points='24,24 104,104'>
<comp char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='0,0 128,128' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' head='cut' tail='cut' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='4,4 124,128'>
<stroke type='s' points='0,0 0,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='hz' points='0,0 128,0 128,128' head='cut' tail='long' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF7E](V=0) -->
</cdl>
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Unicode: U+540E
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