遅い

おそい · osoi · JLPT N5 · i-adj

late

🐢 Oh so E-asy going: osoi is slow, and slow turns up late

Osoi sounds like oh-so-ee, as in oh so easygoing. The kanji 遅 carries the walking radical 辶, a road-movement marker, so the word is about dragging along the way. One word covers both slow and late.

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