to wait (for)

Sorry to have kept you waiting; thank you for waiting

(Kumamoto) closing the door behind one

after this

cheating at rock paper scissors by waiting for one's opponent before throwing

後: back, after, remainder / 跡: remains / 痕: trace, tracks; mark, sign; remains, ruins; scar

(後 "spatially behind") to depart from; to leave / (後 "temporally later") to put off something, to be dealt with later

Alternative form of 跡

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

once upon time / period of time