the rear, back, or backside of something / the rearward or backward direction / the portion of a palace where a queen or other female imperial consort lives

prefixing element in kanji compounds, adding a meaning of later, after, following, rearward

later, afterwards, some time after the present

after

later, afterwards, some time after the present

(spatially) the back, the rear, behind / (temporally) later, afterwards, some time after the present / the rest

one's backside / the back, the rear (both spatially and temporally)

subsequently, afterwards

one, 1 / the first in order, foremost / the beginning / the best / a kind of; one of something / (card games) an ace / unity / the bottom string of a shamisen or other Japanese musical instrument

okurigana: in written Japanese, the kana added after a kanji to indicate inflection endings, such as the べる (-beru) in 食(た)べる (taberu, “to eat”)