Illustration: At a Japanese family dining table, a child sits astride a dining chair backward, with their chest toward its backrest and both arms resting across its top. Their face is directed away from the table toward a cat stretching in the doorway.

JLPT N3na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

後うしろ向むき

ushiromuki

facing backward

Example sentences

後うしろ向むきになってください。
Turn back, please.
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電車でんしゃで後うしろ向むきの席せきに座すわりました。
I sat in a backward-facing seat on the train.
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写真しゃしんでは、子こどもが後うしろ向むきに立たっています。
In the photo, the child is standing with their back to the camera.
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Kanji in 後向

後behind; backOnゴ・コウKunのち・うしろ・うしろ
向face; tend towardOnコウKunむく・むい・むける

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