Radical 丿

6 strokes

後

drag (150a) + piled up (150b) = rear 后

Breaking up this character into “drag” and “piled up” is cheating a bit, as the horizontal stroke joined on to drag is actually something else.

This character originally meant “empress” but has also taken on the role of the simplified form of 後 and is now mostly used in this sense.

后边 (41) hòubiān rear, at the back

以后 (120) yǐhòu after, later

[后天 (76) hòutiān the day after tomorrow]

“We must drag all the old furniture out and pile it up at the rear of the house. / The dwarf is going to turn the house into a hotel.”

“Drag” is different from “cliff ” — the first stroke is a sloping line, and the angle between the lines is more than 90 degrees.

one 一 (1) + mouth 口 (5) = piled up

The unicorn has to use his mouth to pick up things to pile them up on the trash heap. / [No pronunciation needed]