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移

yí

HSK 5 Character

What 移 means

1. to move
2. to shift
3. to change
4. to alter
5. to remove

Example sentences

• 燕子在迁移。
  Yànzi zài qiānyí.
  The swallows are migrating.
• 轻轻地移动。
  Move quietly.
• 这些鸟不转移。
  Zhèxiē niǎo bù zhuǎnyí.
  These birds don't migrate.
• 她转移了视线。
  Tā zhuǎnyí le shìxiàn.
  She looked away.
• 他移动了家具。
  He moved the furniture.
• 请把桌子向左移。
  Please move the desk to the left.

Words starting with 移

• 移民yí mínto immigrate; to migrate; emigrant
• 移动yí dòngto move; movement; migration
• 移植yí zhíto transplant
• 移居yí jūto migrate; to move to a new place of residence
• 移交yí jiāoto transfer; to hand over
• 移开yí kāito move away
• 移民局yí mín júimmigration office
• 移情yí qíngto redirect one's affections; (of literature etc) to cultivate people's character…
• 移送yí sòngto transfer (a case, a person, files etc)
• 移位yí wèito shift; shift; translocation
• 移师yí shīto move troops to; (fig.) to move to; to shift to
• 移住yí zhùto migrate; to resettle
• 移去yí qùto move away
• 移工yí gōng(Taiwan) foreign worker (abbr. for 移住劳工
• 移时yí shífor a while
• 移机yí jīto relocate a piece of equipment (air conditioner etc)
• 移用yí yòngto use (sth) for a purpose other than its original one…
• 移调yí diàoto transpose (music)
• 移转yí zhuǎnto shift; to transfer
• 移除yí chúto remove
• 移动式yí dòng shìmobile
• 移动性yí dòng xìngmobility
• 移民工yí mín gōngmigrant worker
• 移民者yí mín zhěmigrant; immigrant

Words containing 移

• 转移zhuǎn yíto shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention)…
• 潜移默化qián yí mò huàimperceptible influence; to influence secretly
• 迁移qiān yíto migrate; to move
• 推移tuī yí(of time) to elapse; to pass; (of a situation) to develop; to evolve; to shift; to slide…
• 坚定不移jiān dìng bù yíunswerving; unflinching
• 游移yóu yíto wander; to shift around; to waver
• 漂移piāo yíto drift
• 不移bù yísteadfast; inalienable
• 飘移piāo yíto drift
• 平移píng yítranslation (geometry)
• 位移wèi yí(geometry) displacement (a vector quantity)
• 运移yùn yímigration (geology)
• 投资移民tóu zī yí míninvestment immigration; immigrant investor
• 本性难移běn xìng nán yíIt is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.…
• 游移不定yóu yí bù dìngto oscillate without pause (idiom); to fluctuate; (of thoughts) to wander
• 转移安置zhuǎn yí ān zhìto relocate; to evacuate
• 转移支付zhuǎn yí zhī fùtransfer payment…
• 转移视线zhuǎn yí shì xiànto shift one's eyes; (fig.) to shift one's attention; to divert attention
• 高考移民gāo kǎo yí mínstudents who relocate to another region of China in order to gain an advantage on the…
• 中国移动通信Zhōng guó Yí dòng Tōng xìnChina Mobile (PRC state telecommunications company)
• 输移shū yí(sediment) transport
• 意念移物yì niàn yí wùtelekinesis
• 远端转移yuǎn duān zhuǎn yímetastasis
• 红移hóng yíred shift (astronomy)

Characters built on 多

These share the phonetic component 多 (duō), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 侈chǐextravagant; wasteful; exaggerating
• 黟yīblack and shining ebony
• 眵chī(bound form) sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)

Characters that look like 移

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

• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…
• 棉miángeneric term for cotton or kapok; cotton; padded or quilted with cotton
• 稀xīsparse; scattered; rare; uncommon; diluted; thin; watery
• 梓zǐChinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and…
• 殒yǔn(literary) to perish; to die
• 猡luóused in 猪猡

Sounds the same

Read yí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 宜proper; should; suitable
• 姨mother's sister; aunt
• 疑(bound form) to doubt; to suspect
• 遗(bound form) to leave behind
• 仪apparatus; rites; appearance
• 怡harmony; pleased
• 咦expression of surprise
• 夷non-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out
• 颐(literary) chin; jaw; (literary) to foster; to nurture; to protect
• 彝(archaic) wine vessel; (archaic) sacrificial vessel; (literary) rule; convention
• 蛇used in 委蛇
• 贻to present; to bequeath