耽擱

See also: 耽搁

Chinese

		indulge; delay	to place
trad. (耽擱)		耽	擱
simp. (耽搁)		耽	搁
alternative forms		耽閣／耽阁 擔擱／担搁 擔閣／担阁

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dānge, dāngē

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ ˙ㄍㄜ, ㄉㄢ ㄍㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daam¹ gok³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tam-koh / tam-kok / tam-kieh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dānge
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ ˙ㄍㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dange̊
    • Wade–Giles: tan¹-ko⁵
    • Yale: dān-ge
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dan.ge
    • Palladius: даньгэ (danʹgɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵ g̊ə²/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dāngē
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ ㄍㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dange
    • Wade–Giles: tan¹-ko¹
    • Yale: dān-gē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dange
    • Palladius: даньгэ (danʹgɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵ kɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daam¹ gok³
    • Yale: dāam gok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daam¹ gok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: dam¹ gog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːm⁵⁵ kɔːk̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tam-koh
    • Tâi-lô: tam-koh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: damkoiq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tam⁴⁴⁻²² koʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tam³³ koʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tam⁴⁴⁻³³ kɤʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tam⁴⁴⁻³³ koʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tam-kok
    • Tâi-lô: tam-kok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: damkog
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tam⁴⁴⁻²² kɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tam³³ kɔk̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Longyan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tam-kieh
    • Tâi-lô: tam-kieh
    • IPA (Longyan): /tam³³⁴ kie⁵/

Verb

耽擱

1. to stop over
2. to delay (a matter); to waste time; to hold up
3. to miss (a chance to do something)
4. to defer; to adjourn

Synonyms

• (to delay):

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• 展緩 / 展缓 (zhǎnhuǎn)
• 延宕 (yándàng) (literary)
• 延延 (Hokkien)
• 延後 / 延后 (yánhòu)
• 延期 (yánqī)
• 延緩 / 延缓 (yánhuǎn)
• 延誤 / 延误 (yánwù)
• 延遲 / 延迟 (yánchí)
• 拖 (tuō)
• 拖宕 (tuōdàng)
• 拖延 (tuōyán)
• 拖拉 (tuōlā)
• 拖磨 (tuōmó) (literary)
• 拖逗 (tuōdòu) (literary)
• 挨 (ái)
• 挨延 (Hokkien)
• 挨稽 (Hokkien)
• 挨臺 / 挨台 (ngai² tai²) (Sichuanese)
• 推宕 (tuīdàng) (literary)
• 推延 (tuīyán)
• 捱延 (Hokkien)
• 捱稽 (Hokkien)
• 推遲 / 推迟 (tuīchí)
• 暫緩 / 暂缓 (zànhuǎn)
• 稽延 (jīyán) (literary)
• 緩 / 缓 (huǎn)
• 耗 (regional)
• 耽延 (dānyán)
• 耽誤 / 耽误
• 貽誤 / 贻误 (yíwù)
• 遷延 / 迁延 (qiānyán) (literary)
• 遲延 / 迟延 (chíyán)
• 遲滯 / 迟滞 (chízhì)
• 遲誤 / 迟误 (chíwù) (formal)
• 順延 / 顺延 (shùnyán)

 

Antonyms

• (to delay)

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• 提前 (tíqián)
• 提早 (tízǎo)
• 進前 / 进前 (Hokkien)

 

References

• 郭启熹 [Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “耽搁”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 [Lujiang Publishing House], →ISBN, page 273.