耽误
dān​wu HSK7

interfere

耽误 (耽誤) dān​wu
interfere verb
to cause a task or opportunity to be missed or neglected due to delay

你千万别因为这点小事耽误了正事。

nǐ qiān​wàn bié yīn​wèi zhè diǎn xiǎo​shì dān​wu le zhèng​shì.

You must not let such a small matter interfere with the main business.

delay verb
to hold up or cause a process to be late

由于大雨，我们的行程被耽误了。

yóu​yú dà​yǔ, wǒ​men de xíng​chéng bèi dān​wu le.

Our itinerary was delayed due to heavy rain.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
9.48 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
9.11 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Has variant

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)