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延期

yán qī

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

延期 (yán qī) means "to delay; to postpone". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 延期 means

1. to delay
2. to extend
3. to postpone
4. to defer

The characters in 延期

• 延yánto prolong; to extend; to delay
• 期qīa period of time; phase; stage

Example sentences

• 派对延期了一周。
  The party was put off for a week.
• 运动会要延期举行。
  Yùndònghuì yào yánqī jǔxíng.
  The athletic meeting will be put off.
• 我们把活动延期了。
  We postponed the event.
• 他们的旅行因为火车延期了。
  Tāmen de lǚxíng yīnwèi huǒchē yánqī le.
  Their journey was delayed because of the train.
• 他们的旅行因为下雨延期了。
  Tāmen de lǚxíng yīnwèi xiàyǔ yánqī le.
  Their trip was postponed because of the rain.
• 汤姆大概知道会议延期的原因。
  Tāngmǔ dàgài zhīdào huìyì yánqī de yuányīn.
  Tom probably knows why the meeting was postponed.

Words starting with 延期

• 延期付款yán qī fù kuǎnto defer payment; to pay back over long term

Where 延期 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yā (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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