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Mythic Mandarin

迟迟 (chí chí): meaning and stroke order

迟迟 (chí chí) means late (with a task etc), slow.

迟迟

Simplified
迟迟
Traditional
遲遲
Pinyin
chí chí

Stroke order of 迟迟

迟

  • Chí surname Chi
  • chí late; delayed
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 遲

Stroke by stroke

迟

  • Chí surname Chi
  • chí late; delayed
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 遲

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 迟迟

  1. chí chí Traditional 遲遲
    • late (with a task etc)
    • slow

Radicals of the characters

迟
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 7 strokes · built from 辶 and 尺

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

迟迟 in our stories

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  • 他盯着那张纸看了很久，拿起手机，翻到那个很久没联系的号码，却迟迟没有按下去。

    tā dīng zhe nà zhāng zhǐ kàn le hěn jiǔ ná qǐ shǒujī fān dào nà gè hěn jiǔ méi liánxì de hàomǎ què chíchí méiyǒu àn xiàqu

    He stared at it for a long time, picked up his phone and scrolled to the number he hadn't called in ages, but kept holding back from pressing it.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 迟迟

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).