迟

See also: 遲 and 遅

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

Translingual

Traditional	遲
Shinjitai	遅
Simplified	迟

Han character

迟 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人 (YSO), four-corner 3730₈, composition ⿺辶尺)

Related characters

• 遲 (Traditional form of 迟)

References

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

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 辶 (“motion”) + phonetic 尺.

Simplified from 遲 (犀 → 尺) in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme by the People's Republic of China. This character is not known to have existed prior to that.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 迟 – see 遲 (“late; tardy; slow; sluggish; etc.”). (This character, 迟, is the simplified form of 遲.)

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

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04186-016

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Vietnamese

Han character

迟: Hán Việt readings: trí, trì, trĩ, khích
迟: Nôm readings: chầy, trì, khích, chày

References

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

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Zhuang

Verb

迟

1. Alternative form of ⿺辶𡰪 (“Sawndip form of diz (“to carry on one's back”)”)