1 surname Chi

1 to arrive late

1 sooner or later

1 to stop

2 to pause

3 to arrange

4 to lay out

5 to kowtow

6 to stamp (one's foot)

7 at once

8 classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal

1 immediately

2 suddenly

1 to beat one's chest and stamp one's feet (idiom)

1 It's too late to plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river. (idiom)

1 murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear

1 (idiom) no sooner said than done

2 before you know it