Chinese symbol for “delaying”
迂磨
yū mó
sluggish; delaying
The closest CC-CEDICT match for delaying is 迂磨 (yū mó), defined as: sluggish; delaying.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 迂磨.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 迂回 (迂迴) | yū huí | roundabout route; circuitous |
| 迂腐 | yū fǔ | pedantic; trite |
| 迂回曲折 | yū huí qū zhé | meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere; going around in circles |
| 迂阔 (迂闊) | yū kuò | high sounding and impractical; high flown nonsense |
| 迂曲 | yū qū | circuitous; tortuous |
| 拘迂 | jū yū | inflexible; stubborn |
| 折磨 | zhé mó | to torment; to torture |
| 琢磨 | zhuó mó | to carve and polish (jade); to polish and refine a literary work |
See also: Japanese symbol for “delaying”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.