遅

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See also: 遲 and 迟
遅 U+9045, 遅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9045
← 遄
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 遆 →

Translingual

Traditional 遲
Shinjitai 遅
Simplified 迟

Glyph origin

Variant of 遲. Simplified from 遲 (犀 → 𡱝). 𡱝 is a variant of 犀.

The modern Japanese usage is of reform (shinjitai) nature.

Han character

遅 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+9, 13 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 12 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜尸廿手 (YSTQ), four-corner 37305, composition ⿺辶𡱝)

Derived characters

Related characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1261, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38989
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1751, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3868, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9045

Chinese

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 遅 – see 遲 (“late; tardy; slow; sluggish; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 遲).

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

遅

Kyūjitai

遲

Alternative forms

Kanji

遅

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 遲)

  1. slow
  2. late

Readings

Derived terms

Terms derived from 遅

Etymology

Kanji in this term
遅
おそ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
遲 (kyūjitai)

Stem form of classical adjective おそし (​ososhi), modern おそい (osoi, “late”). Attested in the Man'yōshū.

Pronunciation

Noun

遅(おそ) • (oso) 

  1. (obsolete) slowness, tardiness
    於曽(おそ)波夜母(はやも)奈乎許曽麻多賣(なをこそまため)牟可都乎能(むかつをの)四比乃故夜提能(しひのこやでの)安比波多我波自(あひはたがはじ) [Man'yōgana]
    遅(おそ)速(はや)も汝(な)をこそ待(ま)ため向(むか)つ峰(を)の椎(しひ)の小(こ)枝(やで)の逢(あ)ひは違(たが)はじ [Modern spelling]
    osohaya mo na o koso matame mukatsu-o no shii no koyade no, ai wa tagawaji
    (please add an English translation of this example)
  2. (obsolete) foolishness
    常(とこ)世(よ)邊(へに)可住(すむべき)物(もの)乎(を)劔(つるぎ)刀(たち)己之行(ながこころ)柄(から)於(お)曽(そ)也(や)是(この)君(きみ) [Man'yōgana]
    常(とこ)世(よ)辺(へ)に住(す)むべきものを剣(つるぎ)大刀(たち)汝(な)が心(こころ)からおそやこの君(きみ) [Modern spelling]
    tokoyohe ni sumubeki mono o tsurugitachi na ga kokoro kara oso ya kono kimi
    O he might be still dwelling in the Eternal Land, but foolishness was in the heart of yonder wight.

See also

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Asiatic Society of Japan (1907) Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Volumes 35-36, page 96

Korean

Hanja

遅 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

遅: Hán Nôm readings: trì

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