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推迟

tuī chí

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 推遲

推迟 (tuī chí) means "postpone; delay". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 推迟 means

1. to postpone
2. to put off
3. to defer

The characters in 推迟

• 推tuīto push; to cut; to refuse
• 迟chílate; delayed; slow

Example sentences

• 我们推迟了会议。
  We postponed the meeting.
• 她推迟了去墨西哥的行程。
  Tā tuīchí le qù Mòxīgē de xíngchéng.
  She put off going to Mexico.
• 聚会已经推迟到了下周二。
  Jùhuì yǐjīng tuīchí dào le xià Zhōuèr.
  The party has been put off until next Tuesday.
• 我们因为风暴推迟了起程。
  Wǒmen yīnwèi fēngbào tuīchí le qǐchéng.
  We postponed our departure because of the storm.
• 他决定推迟他出发的日期。
  He decided he would put off his departure.
• 汤姆已将出发时间推迟到周一。
  Tom has postponed his departure until Monday.

Where 推迟 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Work tasks & management (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tuī chí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.