"Slow" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 迟缓 | chí huǎn | slow / sluggish |   |
| 慢 |  màn | slow | |
| 缓慢 | huǎn màn | slow | |
| 迟迟 | chí chí | late (with a task etc) / slow | |
| 放缓 | fàng huǎn | to slow / to slow down (the pace of) | |
| 慢速 | màn sù | slow / low-speed | |
| 徐缓 | xú huǎn | slow / sluggish / lazily / to slow down | |
| 卡 | kǎ | to stop / to block / (computing) (coll.) slow / (loanword) card / CL:張|张[zhang1],片[pian4] / truck (from "car") / calorie (abbr. for 卡路里[ka3 lu4 li3]) / cassette | |
| 缓 | huǎn | slow / unhurried / sluggish / gradual / not tense / relaxed / to postpone / to defer / to stall / to stave off / to revive / to recuperate | |
| 迟 | chí | late / delayed / slow | |
| 蹇 | jiǎn | lame / cripple / unfortunate / slow / difficult / nag (inferior horse) / donkey / lame horse | |
| 缦 | màn | plain thin silk / slow / unadorned | |
| 卡顿 | kǎ dùn | (computing) slow / unresponsive | |
| 迟慢 | chí màn | slow / late | |
| 辿 | chān | used in names, e.g. 龍王辿|龙王辿[Long2 wang2 Chan1] Longwang Chan, a place in Shaanxi Province / (literary) (of one's walking pace) slow | |
| 慢性 | màn xìng | slow and patient / chronic (disease) / slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison) | |
| 减速 | jiǎn sù | to reduce speed / to slow down | |
| 迟钝 | chí dùn | slow in one's reactions / sluggish (in movement or thought) | |
| 减缓 | jiǎn huǎn | to slow down / to retard | |
| 延缓 | yán huǎn | to defer / to postpone / to put off / to retard / to slow sth down | |
| 淡季 | dàn jì | off season / slow business season / see also 旺季[wang4 ji4] | |
| 减慢 | jiǎn màn | to slow down | |
| 慢吞吞 | màn tūn tūn | very slow / exasperatingly slow | |
| 慢跑 | màn pǎo | jogging / to jog / to canter / a slow trot | |
| 趋缓 | qū huǎn | to slow down / to ease up / to abate / slowdown / downturn | |
| 木讷 | mù nè | wooden and slow of speech / slow-speeched / inarticulate / unsophisticated | |
| 姗姗来迟 | shān shān lái chí | to be late / to arrive slowly / to be slow in the coming | |
| 慢步 | màn bù | at a slow pace | |
| 慢板 | màn bǎn | slow tempo / adagio | |
| 慢镜头 | màn jìng tóu | (cinema) slow motion | |
| 怠工 | dài gōng | to slacken off in one's work / to go slow (as a form of strike) | |
| 慢车 | màn chē | local bus or train / slow train with many stops | |
| 鲁钝 | lǔ dùn | stupid / slow on the uptake | |
| 熬 | áo | to cook on a slow fire / to extract by heating / to decoct / to endure | |
| 訒 | rèn | slow in speech | |
| 讱 | rèn | (literary) slow in speech | |
| 不疾不徐 | bù jí bù xú | neither too fast nor too slow (idiom) | |
| 缓不济急 | huǎn bù jì jí | lit. slow no aid to urgent (idiom) / slow measures will not address a critical situation / too slow to meet a pressing need | |
| 远水不解近渴 | yuǎn shuǐ bù jiě jìn kě | lit. distant water does not cure present thirst / fig. urgent need / a slow remedy does not address immediate needs | |
| 蜗行牛步 | wō xíng niú bù | lit. to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox (idiom) / fig. to move at a snail's pace / to make slow progress | |
| 慢动作 | màn dòng zuò | (cinema) slow motion | |
| 慢慢吞吞 | màn man tūn tūn | very slow | |
| 四方步 | sì fāng bù | a slow march | |
| 慢行道 | màn xíng dào | slow lane | |
| 拖慢 | tuō màn | to retard / to slow sth down | |
| 敛步 | liǎn bù | (literary) to slow down one's steps / to come to a halt | |
| 炆 | wén | (Cantonese) to simmer / to cook over a slow fire | |
| 磨唧 | mó jī | to be very slow / to dawdle | |
| 结脉 | jié mài | knotted or slow pulse (TCM) | |
| 行动缓慢 | xíng dòng huǎn màn | lagging / slow to move / tardy | |
| 迂缓 | yū huǎn | dilatory / slow in movement / roundabout | |
| 远水救不了近火 | yuǎn shuǐ jiù bu liǎo jìn huǒ | water in a distant place is of little use in putting out a fire right here / (fig.) a slow remedy does not address the current emergency | |
| 慢速大规模毁灭性武器 | màn sù dài guī mú huǐ miè xìng wǔ qì | weapon of mass destruction in slow motion | |
| 慢餐 | màn cān | Slow Food | |
| 慢中子 | slow neutron | | |
| 慢热型 | màn rè xíng | slow to get started | |
| 不怕慢，就怕站 | bù pà màn , jiù pà zhàn | it's better to make slow progress than no progress at all (proverb) | |
| 慢速摄影 | màn sù shè yǐng | slow shutter speed photography | |
| 老牛破车 | lǎo niú pò chē | lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart (idiom) / fig. slow and inefficient | |
| 渐慢 | jiàn màn | to slow down gradually / slower and slower / (music) decelerando / ritardando | |
| 慢半拍 | màn bàn pāi | (music) a half-beat behind / (fig.) rather slow (in performing a task, comprehending etc) | |
| 吃屎都赶不上热乎的 | chī shǐ dōu gǎn bu shàng rè hu de | lit. if you were eating warm shit, it'd be stone cold by the time you finished it (idiom) / fig. (of a person) too slow / can't keep up | |
| 放慢脚步 | fàng màn jiǎo bù | to ease up the pace / to slow things down | |
| 放慢速度 | fàng màn sù dù | to ease up the pace / to slow things down | |
| 慢热 | màn rè | slow to heat up / (fig.) (of a person) reserved / introverted / slow to develop relationships / (of a product etc) to take time to become popular / (sports) slow to reach peak performance | |
| 慢生活 | màn shēng huó | slow living | |
| 磨唧 | mò ji | (dialect) to be very slow / to dawdle | |
| 虽迟但到 | suī chí - dàn dào | (slang) slow to arrive but eventually shows up | |
| 龟速 | guī sù | as slow as a tortoise | |
