漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
延: prolong, stretching
廴 carries the meaning · 正 is drawn in
Small seal · Qin Today
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Five readings, and the words that use each
エンen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 延期するえんきするpostpone
- 延滞するえんたいするbe in arrears
- 延長するえんちょうするextend, elongate
のびるnobiru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 延びるのびるbe postponed [v.i.]
のべるnoberu · kun'yomi
- 延べるのべるlengthen, spread [v.t.]
のべnobe · kun'yomi
- 延べのべin total
のばすnobasu · kun'yomi
- 延ばすのばすpostpone, prolong [v.t.]
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Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)彳 walking + 止 foot
Originally 㢟, an ideogrammic compound (會意): 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).
Source: Wiktionary, 延 (rev. 93573728), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stride radical + correct/stop (止 variant) = the act of stretching out the stopping point or the deadline; extending time or length.”
Connections
Also built on correct (正)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yán
Same form: 延 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 延 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 延 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yán most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.