He postponed leaving for Hokkaido until next month.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
延迟
to delay
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to delay
02
to postpone
03
to keep putting sth off
04
to procrastinate
05
(computing) to lag
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 延迟 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 延迟 appears in 16 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The meeting has been postponed until tomorrow.
With the weather getting worse, the departure was put off.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 延迟.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 延迟.
Directly before
- 被延迟2
- 出发延迟1
- 它延迟1
- 将会延迟1
- 班机延迟1
Directly after
- 延迟了6
- 延迟到3
- 延迟二十分钟1
- 延迟不是1
- 延迟之后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 延迟
What does 延迟 mean in Chinese?
延迟 (yánchí) means to delay.
How do you pronounce 延迟?
延迟 is pronounced yánchí.
Is 延迟 an HSK word?
延迟 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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