迟

See also 遲, and 遅

Translingual

shinjitai	遅
simplified	迟
traditional	遲

Etymology

Simplified from 遲 (犀 → 尺).

Current form Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 辶 (“motion”) + phonetic 尺 – to move slowly, to be late.

Han character

迟 (radical 162 辵+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人 (YSO))

1. late, tardy
2. slow
3. delay

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1254, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3822, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8FDF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

迟 (traditional 遲, Yale chi4)

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Korean

Hanja

迟 (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

迟 (traditional 遲, pinyin chí (chi2), Wade-Giles ch'ih²)