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迟 — late; delayed; slow

Pinyin
chí · Chí
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — chí, Chí — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 迟: 7 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

迟 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 迟

Words with 迟 in the HSK syllabus: 8

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 迟到chídàoto arrive lateHSK 3
  2. 迟chílate; delayed; slowHSK 4
  3. 推迟tuīchíto postpone; to put off; to deferHSK 4
  4. 迟迟chíchílate; slowHSK 7–9
  5. 迟钝chídùnslow in one's reactions; sluggishHSK 7–9
  6. 迟缓chíhuǎnslow; sluggishHSK 7–9
  7. 迟疑chíyíto hesitateHSK 7–9
  8. 迟早chízǎosooner or laterHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.