Owing to the rain, the athletic meeting was put off.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
延后
to postpone
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to postpone
02
to defer
03
to delay
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 延后 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 延后 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Bob suggested postponing the party till Wednesday.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 延后.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 延后.
Directly before
- 下雨延后1
- 聚会延后1
Directly after
- 延后了1
- 延后到1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 延后
What does 延后 mean in Chinese?
延后 (yánhòu) means to postpone.
How do you pronounce 延后?
延后 is pronounced yánhòu.
Is 延后 an HSK word?
延后 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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