Chinese symbol for “tarry”
耽搁
dān ge
Traditional: 耽擱
to delay; to hold up; to tarry; to stay; to put off
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tarry is 耽搁 (dān ge), defined as: to delay; to hold up; to tarry; to stay; to put off.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 耽搁.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 耽误 (耽誤) | dān wu | to delay; to hold up |
| 耽美 | dān měi | (slang) boys' love, aka BL (genre of homoerotic online literature) |
| 耽心 | dān xīn | variant of 担心 (dān xīn) |
| 耽溺 | dān nì | to indulge in; to wallow in |
| 耽忧 (耽憂) | dān yōu | variant of 担忧 (dān yōu) |
| 搁置 (擱置) | gē zhì | to put; to place; to set aside; to shelve; to put on hold |
| 搁浅 (擱淺) | gē qiǎn | to run aground; to become stranded; (fig.) to run into difficulties and come to a standstill; to stall |
| 搁笔 (擱筆) | gē bǐ | to put down the brush; to stop writing (or painting) |
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.