耽

How to write 耽, stroke by stroke

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What 耽 means

to indulge in; to delay; variant of 耽

Pictophonetic: semantic 耳 (ear), phonetic 冘

Made of 耳 + 冘

Words with 耽

• 耽误dān wuto delay; to hold up; to waste time; to interfere with
• 耽搁dān geto tarry; to delay; to stop over
• 耽美dān měi(slang) boys' love, aka BL (genre of homoerotic online literature)
• 耽溺dān nìto indulge in; to wallow in
• 耽心dān xīnvariant of 担心
• 耽忧dān yōuvariant of 担忧

耽 in a sentence

• 可以耽误你一点时间吗?

  kě yǐ dān wù nǐ yì diǎn shí jiān ma ?

  Do you have a minute?

• 事故耽误了我们半小时。

  shì gù dān wù le wǒ men bàn xiǎo shí 。

  An accident delayed us for half an hour.

• 耽误你的假期了。

  dān wù nǐ de jià qī le 。

  It delayed your holiday.

• 事故耽误了交通。

  shì gù dān wù le jiāo tōng 。

  The accident held up traffic.

• 我被交通堵塞耽搁了。

  wǒ bèi jiāo tōng dǔ sè dān gē le 。

  I was delayed by a traffic jam.

Characters that sound like 耽

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