IDENTITY
迟chílate
HSK 2Top 900
CORE MEANING
late
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.lateHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 辶walk radical (chuò)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- semi-enclosed compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿺辶尺
- walking
- gives the sound chí (historical)
USAGE
Common words
迟到chídàoto be late
推迟tuīchíto postpone
Graded examples
别迟到了。Bié chídào le.HSK2
Don’t be late.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Walking (辶) slowly, measured in feet (尺) — dawdling, late. (From 遲.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #900
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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