後ろ

Japanese

Alternative forms

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

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