Dictionary › 迟缓

迟缓

chí huǎn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 遲緩

迟缓 (chí huǎn) means "slow; sluggish". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 迟缓 means

1. slow
2. sluggish

The characters in 迟缓

• 迟chílate; delayed; slow
• 缓huǎnslow; unhurried; sluggish

Example sentences

• 行动迟缓的蓝色美洲狮从勤奋的猫身下滑过。
  The slow blue puma slides under the diligent cat.

Sounds the same

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

• 弛缓to relax; to slacken; to ease; (physics) relaxation (in nuclear magnetic resonance)

Where 迟缓 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chí huǎn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.