遷 (qiān)
to move; to shift; to change location
How 遷 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 辶 — walk
- Traditional
- 遷
- Simplified
- 迁
Components
- 辶 walk
- 覀 west
- 大 big
- 巳 oneself
Common words using 遷
- 升遷 shēngqiān
- promote; promotion
- 拆遷 chāiqiān
- to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants
- 變遷 biànqiān
- changes; vicissitudes
- 遷就 qiānjiù
- to yield; to adapt to; to accommodate to (sth)
- 遷徙 qiānxǐ
- to migrate; to move
- 喬遷 qiáoqiān
- to move (to a superior place); promotion
- 宿遷 sùqiān
- Suqian prefecture level city in Jiangsu
- 搬遷 bānqiān
- to move; to relocate; removal
- 見異思遷 jiànyìsīqiān
- to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty; never satisfied with what one has
- 遷移 qiānyí
- to migrate; to move
- 喬遷之喜 qiáoqiānzhīxǐ
- congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home!
- 宿遷市 sùqiānshì
- Suqian prefecture level city in Jiangsu
遷 in a sentence
他們最近遷到了台北。
Tāmen zuìjìn qiān dào le Táiběi.
“They recently moved to Taipei.”
How common is 遷?
遷 is the 1,628th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.4% of all running text.
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