chí

late

Evolution

遟 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Definitions

 

chí

late, tardy; slow; delay; variant of |[chí]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l<r>ə[j]

drij

chí

slow


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+905F

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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