Chinese Character Wiki
遲

chí

late

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

walk

犀 sound component

犀  Sound component

xī

  

rhinoceros

Evolution

遲 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
遲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
遲 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
遲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

迟 (遲) 

chí

late, tardy; slow; delay; late; delayed

迟 (遲) 

Chí

surname Chi

Most common words with 遲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

迟到

to arrive late

迟

late

推迟

to postpone

迟早

sooner or later

迟迟

slow

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l<r>ə[j]

drij

chí

slow


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 44.8502% of movies

967th most common character in movies

1374th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

迟

Unicode

U+9072

Shuowen

“遲，徐行也。从辵，犀聲。《詩》曰：‘行道遲遲。’，遲或从。遟，籀文遲从屖。”


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