Be late in Chinese
to be late · HSK 3
迟到
- 迟 late
- 到 to arrive
明天上课别迟到了。 Don't be late for class tomorrow.
More words with 迟 or 到
How do you say be late in Chinese?
Be late in Chinese is 迟到 (chí dào).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.