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迟到

chí dào

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 遲到

迟到 (chí dào) means "to arrive late". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 迟到 means

1. to arrive late

The characters in 迟到

• 迟chílate; delayed; slow
• 到dàoto reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point)

Example sentences

• 你总是迟到。
  You are always late.
• 她很少迟到。
  She is rarely late for appointments.
• 没有人迟到。
  No one was late.
• 我们迟到了。
  We are late.
• 我们没迟到。
  We're not late.
• 请你别迟到。
  Please don't be late.

Sounds the same

Read chí dào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 驰道(old) highway for the emperor; highway

Where 迟到 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Sequence, Similarity & Remaining Words (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chí dào correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.