Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 遅
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遅 |
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Kanji-Trainer
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Meaning |
slow, late, tardy, later |
Pronunciation |
CHI
okureru, osoi |
Explanation |
Left: movement 辶, right: buttock from the side 尸, sheep 羊 (The horned 丷 animal with a backbone 丨 and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is a sheep) |
Mnemonic
| You move like the buttock of a sheep: too late and so slow. |
Radicals
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辶
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movement | (The radical shinnyuu stands for movement and thus has the same meaning as the very similar radical ennyou 廴) |
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尸
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buttocks (in a side view) | (The radical shikabane has the meaning: corpse 尸. But because of its use in tail 尾, buttocks 尻 or urine 尿, it is generally considered to mean "buttocks".) |
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羊
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sheep | (Picture of the face of a sheep with two horns.) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 手遅れ |
ておくれ |
being (too) late, belated treatment | | 遅い |
おそい |
late/slow | | 遅くとも |
おそくとも |
at the latest | | 遅らす |
おくらす |
to retard/to delay | | 遅れ |
おくれ |
delay/lag | | 遅れる |
おくれる |
to be late/to be delayed/to fall behind schedule | | 遅刻 |
ちこく |
lateness/late coming |
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