後ろ

後ろ

Japanese

Alternative forms

• 後

Etymology

Kanji in this term
後
うし Grade: 2
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese.[1] Appears in the Kojiki of 712 CE. From Proto-Japonic *usirə.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) うしろ [ùshíró] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝɕiɾo̞]

Noun

後(うし)ろ • (ushiro) 

1. back, behind, rear
   • 720, Nihon Shoki (poem 120), text available at ONCOJ here

     瀰儺度能于之藩能矩娜利于那倶娜梨(みなとのうしおのくだりうなくだり)于之盧(うしろ)母倶例尼飫岐底舸由舸武(もくれにおきてかゆかむ) [Man'yōgana]

     港(みなと)の潮(うしお)の下(くだ)り海下(うなくだ)り後(うし)ろも暮(く)れに置(お)きてか行(ゆ)かむ [Modern spelling]

     minato no ushio no kudari unakudari ushiro mo kure ni okiteka yukamu

     With the harbour's ebbing tide, as the sea goes down, with the darkness behind me. Leaving him, I must go.

Derived terms

• 真後ろ
• 前後ろ
• 後ろめたい
• 後ろ暗い
• 後ろ向き
• 後ろ合わせ
• 後ろ姿
• 後ろ指
• 後ろ手
• 後ろ楯
• 後ろ盾
• 後ろ身頃
• 後ろ前
• 後ろ足
• 後ろ鉢巻
• 後ろ髪
• 後ろ明き

References

1. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (2020), “Old Japanese usiro”, in Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese‎