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徙

xǐ

HSK 6 Character

What 徙 means

1. literaryto change one's residence

Example sentences

• 斑尾塍鹬从阿拉斯加迁徙至纽西兰。
  The bar-tailed godwit migrates from Alaska to New Zealand.
• 每个人在各国境内均享有迁徙自由与居住自由的权利。
  Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.

Words containing 徙

• 迁徙qiān xǐto migrate; to move
• 转徙zhuǎn xǐto migrate; to move house
• 曲突徙薪qū tū xǐ xīnlit. to bend the chimney and remove the firewood (to prevent fire) (idiom)…
• 民族大迁徙mín zú dà qiān xǐgreat migration of peoples

Characters that look like 徙

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 提títo carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward
• 徒tú(bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer…
• 捷jiévictory; triumph; quick
• 旋xuánto revolve; a loop; a circle
• 棱léngsquare beam; variant of 棱
• 绫língdamask; thin silk

Sounds the same

Read xǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 喜to be fond of; to like; to enjoy
• 洗to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc)
• 玺ruler's seal
• 禧joy
• 铣to mill (machining); Taiwan pr. xiǎn
• 喺to be at, in or on (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 在
• 囍double happiness (similar to 喜喜); symbol of good luck, esp. marriage
• 屣slippers
• 葸feel insecure; unhappy
• 簁sieve; to sift, to strain
• 蓰(grass); increase five fold
• 枲male nettle-hemp