后来
Pinyin: hòu lái
afterward
Example sentence
后来他们结婚了。
Hòulái tāmen jiéhūn le.
Later they got married.
What 后来 means
后来 (hòu lái) is an Chinese word meaning “afterward”. It belongs to the Time & Nature topic and appears at HSK 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.