遲 (chí)
late; delayed; slow
How 遲 is written
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 辶 — walk
- Traditional
- 遲
- Simplified
- 迟
Components
- 辶 walk
- 尸 corpse
- 氺 water
- 牛 cow
Common words using 遲
- 遲到 chídào
- to arrive late
- 延遲 yánchí
- to delay; to postpone; to keep putting sth off
- 推遲 tuīchí
- to postpone; to put off; to defer
- 遲早 chízǎo
- sooner or later
- 遲疑 chíyí
- to hesitate
- 遲緩 chíhuǎn
- slow; sluggish
- 遲遲 chíchí
- late (with a task etc); slow
- 遲鈍 chídùn
- slow (witted); stupid
- 凌遲 língchí
- the lingering death; the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment)
- 姍姍來遲 shānshānláichí
- to be late; to arrive slowly; to be slow in the coming
- 遲了 chíle
- late
- 遲交 chíjiāo
- to delay handing over (payment, homework etc)
遲 in a sentence
不好意思，我遲到了。
Bù hǎoyìsi, wǒ chídào le.
“Sorry, I am late.”
How common is 遲?
遲 is the 1,372nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 93.6% of all running text.
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