马后炮 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 馬後炮 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. mǎhòupào ㄇㄚˇ ㄏㄡˋ ㄆㄠˋ moving the cannon after moving the horse away Chinese chess a useless action or comment sth done after it's too late fig. Character by character 马(mǎ)horse 后(hòu)empress 炮(pào)cannon A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT