Related forms: 遲 is often interchanged historically with 遟.

Phono-semantic compound:
辵 (착, “to walk slowly”) — semantic, related to walking and movement.
犀 (seo, “rhinoceros”) — phonetic, providing the sound.
Graphically, the character shows the “movement radical” 辵 combined with 犀 to suggest both motion and the idea of heaviness/slowness.

지체 (遲滯) — delay, stagnation
지연 (遲延) — postponement, delay
지각 (遲刻) — being late (to school, work, etc.)
만지각 (晩遲刻) — arriving late
Still fairly common in academic, legal, and formal contexts.

Characters

Words

Vocabulary

to be at ease, comfortable, unrestrained, to escape, flee, run away

finally, at last, to advance, to accomplish/achieve, to escape, to recommend, to raise/nurture, to follow, to hesitate, road, path

to carry, to move, fortune, luck

widely, everywhere, pervasively, a round, a turn, a time

to pass, to cross over, to exceed, mistake, fault, past

road, path, way, method, doctrine, principle, to lead, to guide

to be humble, modest, to yield

distant, far away

to be slow, sluggish, to be late, delayed

to follow, to comply with, to observe, to abide by

to select, to choose, to pick out

to leave, to bequeath, to lose

to come back, to return, to revolve, to carry out

edge, border

how, why, many, abundant

country, capital city, feudal lord’s fief

wrong, evil, depraved, vicious, perverse

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Chinese character

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遲

Etymology

Usage in Korean

Words that derived from 遲

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