- 后背(hòu bèi): the back (human anatomy); the back part of something
- 后果(hòu guǒ): consequences; aftermath
- 落后(luò hòu): to fall behind; to lag (in technology, etc.); backward; to retrogress
- 后代(hòu dài): posterity; later periods; later ages; later generations
- 后顾之忧(hòu gù zhī yōu): fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action); worries about the future consequences; often in negative expressions, meaning ‘no worries about anything’
- 后勤(hòu qín): logistics
- 皇后(huáng hòu): empress; imperial consort
- 空前绝后(kōng qián jué hòu): unprecedented and never to be duplicated; the first and the last; unmatched; unique
- 争先恐后(zhēng xiān kǒng hòu): striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another
*CL: Classifier/Measure Word