延
Meanings
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- 1.to prolong
- 2.to extend
- 3.to delay
- 1.surname Yan
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Wiktionary
- 1.to prolong
- 2.to stretch; to extend
- 3.to engage; to send for
- 4.to delay; to postpone; to defer
- 5.a surname
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Etymology
Originally 㢟, an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 彳 (“walking”) + 止 (“foot”) – "to travel far". The stroke at the top started being added as a distinguishing mark at the end of the Warring States period, as a way to distinguish its usage from 㢟 as an adverb to mean "prolonged", making it an Ideogram (指事). Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *lan, *lans): phonetic 丿 (OC *pʰleːd, *leds) + semantic 㢟. Within Chinese, cognate with 筵 (OC *lan, “bamboo mat”), 梴 (OC *l̥ʰan, “long (of wood)”) and 誕 (OC *l'aːnʔ, “wide; ludicrous”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Burmese လှန်း (hlan:, “to dry (things) in the sun”). Probably unrelated to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *jaːr (“spread; extend; sail”), whence Tibetan གཡོར་མོ (g.yor mo, “sail”), Mizo zâr (“to spread; to spread out”), Jingpho yàn (“spread; unrolled”). Pan (1987) suggests Vietnamese lan (“to spread”) is borrowed from Old Chinese 延 (OC *lan, *lans).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
她延長停留五天。
She extended her stay by five days.
這條延長線太短了。
This extension cord is too short.
他延遲到下個月去北海道。
He postponed leaving for Hokkaido until next month.
一些航班由於地震被延誤了。
A couple of flights were delayed on account of the earthquake.
經過數次延遲之後，飛機終於離開了。
After several delays, the plane finally left.
由於下大雪，從北京来的班機延遲二十分鐘。
Because of heavy snow, the plane from Beijing arrived 20 minutes late.
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Derived terms
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