拖延 tuōyán▶ ล่าช้า

Stroke order

拖延 is written in 14 strokes across 2 characters.

• 拖 — 8 strokes
• 延 — 6 strokes

Senses

1. to delay
2. to put off
3. to procrastinate

Related words

• 延伸ขยาย
• 延期ล่าช้า
• 延续ดำเนินต่อไป
• 蔓延แพร่; คลาน
• 延长ขยาย

拖延 is pronounced tuōyán and means “ล่าช้า”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 拖延 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.