然后 (然後) ránhòu
conjunction
after; after that; afterwards
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Function Words
, Concept: Correlative 关联词
Notes: The form 先…然后 is mainly used in coordinate complex sentences in a later clause to explain a correlative or successive relation. This word has the same meaning in Literary Chinese as Modern Chinese (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 119).
Contained in
- 学然后知不足(學然後知不足) to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 9 Xin Shu 新書 — count: 33
- 侈靡第三十五 Chapter 35: Extravagance Guanzi 管子 — count: 20
- 五輔第十 Chapter 10: Wu Fu Guanzi 管子 — count: 18
- 《樂記》 Record of Music The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 17
- 《王制》 Royal Regulations The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 17
- 《樂書》 Music Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 17
- 卷十九 修文 Chapter 19: Cultivation and Education Garden of Stories 說苑 — count: 17
- 卷四十六 列傳第十六 劉頌 李重 Volume 46 Biographies 16: Liu Song; Li Zhong Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 16
- 《學記》 Record on the Subject of Education The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 16
- 卷四百五十五 列傳第二百十四 忠義十 陳東 歐陽澈 馬伸何兌 呂祖儉 呂祖泰 楊宏中 華岳 鄧若水 僧眞寶 莫謙之 徐道明 Volume 455 Biographies 214: Loyalty and Righteousness 10 - Chen Dong, Ouyang Che, Ma Shenhedui, Lu Zujian, Lu Zutai, Yang Hongzhong, Hua Yue, Deng Ruoshui, Seng Zhenbao, Mo Qianzhi, Xu Daoming History of Song 宋史 — count: 13