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遅 kanji
slow, late, back, later
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
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Kun readings
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Variant forms
遲Words with 遅
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3遅刻Popularlateness; tardiness; arriving late
- —遅延Populardelay; latency
- —遅滞Populardelay; procrastination
- —遅配Populardelay (in payment, delivery, rationing, etc.)
- —遅々Popularslow; lagging; tardy
- —遅速speed; progress
- —遅着late arrival
- —遅疑hesitation; vacillation
- —遅鈍dullness; stupidity
- —遅参late attendance; lateness; tardiness
- —遅日long spring day
- —遅効delayed effect
- —遅発delayed departure; delayed start; leaving behind schedule; delayed onset; late onset; delayed ignition; delayed detonation
- —遅筆writing slowly
- —巧遅elaborate but slow execution; polished but slow work
- —遅脈slow pulse
- —凌遅lingchi; death by a thousand cuts; slow torture by slicing off parts of the body
- —遅漏late ejaculation; impotence
- —遅春late spring; spring that comes late
- —遅達late delivery; delayed delivery; late notification