延

Stroke order

Example sentences

• 运动会要延期举行。

  Yùn dòng huì yào yán qī jǔ xíng

  The athletic meeting will be put off.

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• 我不能再拖延了。

  Wǒ bù néng zài tuō yán le

  I have to stop procrastinating.

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• 不要拖延去找工作的事。

  Bù yào tuō yán qù zhǎo gōng zuò de shì

  Stop putting off finding a job.

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• 派对延期了一周。

  Pài duì yán qī le yī zhōu

  The party was put off for a week.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 延

• 延长yán cháng 2–2 to prolong; to extend; to delay
• 延续yán xù 2–4 to continue; to go on; to last
• 延期yán qī 2–1 to delay; to extend; to postpone; to defer
• 延伸yán shēn 2–1 to extend; to spread
• 蔓延màn yán 4–2 to extend; to spread
• 拖延tuō yán 1–2 to delay; to put off; to procrastinate
• 延yán 2to prolong; to extend; to delay
• 延误yán wu 2–5to delay; to be held up; to miss (an opportunity); delay; holdup
• 延缓yán huǎn 2–3 to defer; to postpone; to put off; to retard; to slow sth down