迁
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to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc); to promote
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,682 U+8FC1
How 迁 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辶 (semantic, “walk”) + 千 (phonetic, qiān)
How to remember it
resituate · Heisig RSH #1618
road + 千 thousand
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 千
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 千 (qiān) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 千 sound component | qiān | thousand; many, numerous; very |
| 纤 | xiān | fine, delicate; tiny, minute |
| 阡 | qiān | path; a foot-path between fields |
| 扦 | qiān | to probe, to poke, to pierce, to pick at |
| 忏 | chàn | to regret, to repent; confession, penitence |
| 仟 | qiān | one thousand; leader of one thousand men |
Words containing 迁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 安土重迁 | ān tǔ zhòng qiān | to hate to leave a place where one has lived long; to be attached to one's native land and… |
| 迁安市 | Qiān ān Shì | Qian'an, a county-level city in Tangshan City 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 Shi4], Hebei |
| 迁西县 | Qiān xī Xiàn | Qianxi, a county in Tangshan City 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 Shi4], Hebei |
| 见异思迁 | jiàn yì sī qiān | to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty; never satisfie… |
| 情随事迁 | qíng suí shì qiān | feelings change with circumstances (idiom) |
| 司马迁 | Sī mǎ Qiān | Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|… |
| 事过境迁 | shì guò jìng qiān | The issue is in the past, and the situation has changed (idiom).; It is water under the br… |
| 时过境迁 | shí guò jìng qiān | things change with the passage of time (idiom) |
| 迁居移民 | qiān jū yí mín | immigration |
| 迁怒于人 | qiān nù yú rén | to vent one's anger on an innocent party (idiom) |
| 迁安 | Qiān ān | see 遷安市|迁安市[Qian1 an1 Shi4] |
| 迁西 | Qiān xī | see 遷西縣|迁西县[Qian1 xi1 Xian4] |
| 高迁 | gāo qiān | promotion (honorific) |
| 宿迁市 | Sù qiān Shì | Suqian, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省[Jiang1 su1 Sheng3] |
| 网络迁移 | wǎng luò qiān yí | network migration |
| 变迁 | biàn qiān | changes; vicissitudes |
| 迁入 | qiān rù | to move in (to new lodging) |
| 调迁 | diào qiān | to transfer; to move; to shift |
| 史景迁 | Shǐ Jǐng qiān | Jonathan D. Spence (1936–2021), British-American historian of China |
| 乔迁之喜 | qiáo qiān zhī xǐ | congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home! |