迟

迟 U+8FDF, 迟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FDF ← 连 [U+8FDE] CJK Unified Ideographs 迠 → [U+8FE0]

See also: 遲 and 遅

Translingual

Traditional	遲
Shinjitai	遅
Simplified	迟

Etymology

Simplified from 遲 (犀 → 尺).

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

Han character

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

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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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 迟 – see 遲. (This character, 迟, is the simplified form of 遲.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Character

Readings

• Hán Việt: trí, trì, trĩ, khích
• Nôm: chầy, trì, khích, chày

References

• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)