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Mythic Mandarin

推迟 (tuī chí): meaning and stroke order

推迟 (tuī chí) means to postpone, to put off, to defer.

推迟

Simplified
推迟
Traditional
推遲
Pinyin
tuī chí

Stroke order of 推迟

推

  • tuī to push; to cut
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

迟

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 推迟

  1. tuī chí Traditional 推遲
    • to postpone
    • to put off
    • to defer

Radicals of the characters

推
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 11 strokes · 扌 on the left, 隹 on the right
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.

推迟 in our stories

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  • 龙王为了赢这场赌，偷偷把下雨的时间推迟了一个时辰，又少下了三寸八点。

    Lóngwáng wèile yíng zhè chǎng dǔ tōutōu bǎ xiàyǔ de shíjiān tuīchí le yí gè shíchen yòu shǎo xià le sān cùn bā diǎn

    To win the bet, the Dragon King secretly delayed the rain by one double-hour and made it three inches and eight drops less.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 推迟

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).