前仰后合

to sway to and fro / to rock back and forth

front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly

empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler

back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-

100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗

to close / to join / to fit / to be equal to / whole / together / round (in battle) / conjunction (astronomy) / 1st note of pentatonic scale / old variant of 盒[he2]

variant of 合[he2]

surname Yang

to face upward / to look up / to admire / to rely on