迁 (qiān): to move, to shift, to change (a position or location etc)
迁 (qiān) is a Chinese character meaning “to move.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 辶 (semantic) and 千 (phonetic). It ranks #1619 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 迁 walk. Its radical form 辶 (walk) appears in many related characters such as 边 (biān, side), 过 (guò, to pass, past), 还 (hái, still, return).
Definitions
- to move
- to shift
- to change (a position or location etc)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 迁徙verb | qiān xǐ | to migrate |
| 升迁verb | shēng qiān | to advance to a higher-level position |
| 迁就verb | qiān jiù | to yield to |
| 乔迁verb | qiáo qiān | to move (to a superior place) |
| 迁移verb | qiān yí | to migrate |
| 搬迁verb | bān qiān | to move |
| 变迁verb | biàn qiān | changes |
| 迁怒verb | qiān nù | to take one's anger out on sb (who does not deserve it) |
| 时过境迁phrase | shí guò jìng qiān | things change with the passage of time (idiom) |
| 拆迁verb | chāi qiān | to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants |
| 乔迁之喜phrase | qiáo qiān zhī xǐ | congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom) |
| 迁居verb | qiān jū | to move (from one residence to another) |
| 迁入verb | qiān rù | to move in (to new lodging) |
| 事过境迁phrase | shì guò jìng qiān | The issue is in the past, and the situation has changed (idiom). |
| 见异思迁phrase | jiàn yì sī qiān | to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom) |
迁 appears in 40 compound words: 40 as the first character, 48 as the last, and 13 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 迁 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (6)
to hate to leave one's native land or where one has lived long; to love one's homeland and not wish to leave it
happy occasion of moving into a new house; house warming (celebration); promotion (celebration)
to hate to leave one's native land or where one has lived long; to love one's homeland and not wish to leave it
happy occasion of moving into a new house; house warming (celebration); promotion (celebration)
Example Sentences
这个迁字的意思与它的部首有关。
zhè gě qiān zì de yì sī yú tā de bù shǒu yǒu guān .
The meaning of the character "迁" is related to its radical.
Public Storage总部迁往Texas
P u b l i c S t o r a g e zǒng bù qiān wǎng T e x a s
Public Storage headquarters moved to Texas
美国最大自助仓储公司总部从加州迁德州
měi guó zuì dà zì zhù cāng chǔ gōng sī zǒng bù cóng jiā zhōu qiān dé zhōu
The headquarters of the largest self-storage company in the United States moved from California to Texas
...2 核心启动器更名 mBoot,版本号跃迁至 18000
. . . 2 hé xīn qǐ dòng qì gēng míng m B o o t , bǎn běn hào yuè qiān zhì 1 8 0 0 0
... 2 The core launcher was renamed mBoot, and the version number jumped to 18000
...现薇趋势/超商换血 预示就业市场永久性变迁
. . . xiàn 薇 qū shì chāo shāng huàn xiě yù shì jiù yè shì chǎng yǒng jiǔ xìng biàn qiān
... The current trend/supermarket blood exchange indicates permanent changes in the job market
立法院迁址“新地点”! 韩国瑜抛“征收圆山饭店”
lì fǎ yuàn qiān zhǐ xīn dì diǎn ! hán guó 瑜 pāo zhēng shōu yuán shān fàn diàn
The Legislative Yuan moved to a "new location"! Han Kuo-yu threw "expropriation of the Yuanshan Hotel"
星期五是乔迁派对!
Xīngqīwǔ shì qiáoqiān pàiduì!
Friday is housewarming party!
越来越多的人迁往市区。
Yuèláiyuè duō de rén qiān wǎng shìqū.
More and more people are moving to urban areas.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 辶 (walk) component
Frequently Asked Questions
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