迁
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to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc); to promote
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 辵 +3
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 迁
- Common rank
- #1,682
- Unicode
- U+8FC1
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
resituate · Heisig RSH #1618
road + 千 thousand
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 迁
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 安土重迁 | to hate to leave a place where one has lived long; to be attached to one's native land and… | |
| 迁安市 | Qian'an, a county-level city in Tangshan City 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 迁西县 | Qianxi, a county in Tangshan City 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 见异思迁 | to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty; never satisfie… | |
| 情随事迁 | feelings change with circumstances (idiom) | |
| 司马迁 | Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|… | |
| 事过境迁 | The issue is in the past, and the situation has changed (idiom).; It is water under the br… | |
| 时过境迁 | things change with the passage of time (idiom) | |
| 迁居移民 | immigration | |
| 迁怒于人 | to vent one's anger on an innocent party (idiom) | |
| 迁安 | see 遷安市|迁安市[Qian1 an1 Shi4] | |
| 迁西 | see 遷西縣|迁西县[Qian1 xi1 Xian4] | |
| 高迁 | promotion (honorific) | |
| 宿迁市 | Suqian, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省[Jiang1 su1 Sheng3] | |
| 网络迁移 | network migration | |
| 变迁 | changes; vicissitudes | |
| 迁入 | to move in (to new lodging) | |
| 调迁 | to transfer; to move; to shift | |
| 史景迁 | Jonathan D. Spence (1936–2021), British-American historian of China | |
| 乔迁之喜 | congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home! |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 千 — compare how they read.