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What does 延误 mean?

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延误 yánwù

to delay; delay

Its characters

  1. 延 yán to postpone
  2. 误 wù to miss (a train, a deadline)

In a sentence

大雾导致航班延误了两个小时。 The heavy fog delayed the flight by two hours.

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