漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
遅: slow, late
Also: back, later
JLPT N312 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 尸 and 羊 are drawn in
12 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
チchi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 遅刻するちこくするcome late
- 遅延ちえんdelay; latency
- 遅々ちちslow; lagging; tardy
おくれるokureru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 遅れるおくれるbe late [v.i.]
- 遅れおくれdelay; lag; falling behind
おくらすokurasu · kun'yomi
- 遅らすおくらすdelay [v.t.]
おそいosoi · kun'yomi
- 遅いおそいlate, slow
- 夜遅くよるおそくlate at night
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side遅 slow · 尸
vs達 accomplished · 土In ChineseSimplified 迟 · traditional 遲 · chí
Three different forms: Japanese 遅, simplified 迟, traditional 遲.
- Simplified
- 迟 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 遲 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin chí most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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