后来

後來traditional

HSK 3#1055 by frequencyradical 口

hòu lái["t"]

afterwards; later; newly arrived

Examples

他后来写信给总统。

Later he wrote to the president.

园丁后来发现就是凶手。

The gardener turned out to be the murderer.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.