The Chinese word 事后 (shìhòu), meaning "after the event" or "afterwards", is a compound formed by combining two meaningful characters: 事 (shì), which means "matter", "affair", or "event", and 后 (hòu), which means "after", "behind", or "later". This follows a common grammatical structure in Chinese where a noun (事) is modified by a following positional or temporal character (后) to create an adverb or time expression, literally translating to "the time after the matter". The formation is logical and semantically transparent, directly reflecting its meaning of referring to the period or actions following a specific incident.