迟
遲HSK 5freq #4008
Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.late
- 2.delayed
- 3.slow
- 1.surname Chi
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 辶 (“motion”) + phonetic 尺. Simplified from 遲 (犀 → 尺) in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme by the People's Republic of China. This character is not known to have existed prior to that.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
来迟了吗？
Is it too late?
迟做总比不做好。
Better late than never.
现在道歉也迟了。
It's too late to apologize.
因为你我们才迟了。
It's because of you that we were late.
万一船运迟了，我们有特别的迟到保险。
In case the shipment is delayed, we have special delay insurance.
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