拖 tuō
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
拖延
tuōyán
to delay
Characters in this word
延 yán
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 廴 — to walk, to go
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 不及时处理小问题，只会拖延整个工程的进度。 Bù jíshí chǔlǐ xiǎo wèntí, zhǐ huì tuōyán zhěnggè gōngchéng de jìndù. Failing to deal with small problems promptly will only delay the progress of the whole project.
- 你总是拖延作业，到最后一晚才开始写。 Nǐ zǒngshì tuōyán zuòyè, dào zuìhòu yì wǎn cái kāishǐ xiě. You always put off your homework and only start writing on the last evening.
- 这件事不能再拖延了，我们今天就决定吧。 Zhè jiàn shì bù néng zài tuōyán le, wǒmen jīntiān jiù juédìng ba. We can't put this off any longer, so let's decide today.
Related words
- 拖 tuō to drag, to pull
- 拖累 tuōlěi to drag down; to burden
- 拖欠 tuōqiàn to be in arrears; to default on payment
- 延长 yáncháng to extend
- 延期 yánqī to postpone
- 延续 yánxù to continue
- 延伸 yánshēn to stretch out
- 蔓延 mànyán to spread; to extend
- 顺延 shùnyán to postpone; to extend
- 延 yán to extend; to delay
- 延缓 yánhuǎn to delay; to slow down
- 延误 yánwù to delay; to hold up