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移民

yí mín

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

移民 (yí mín) means "to immigrate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 移民 means

1. to immigrate
2. to migrate
3. emigrant
4. immigrant

The characters in 移民

• 移yíto move; to shift; to change
• 民mín(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country

Example sentences

• 许多移民改了名字。
  Many of the immigrants changed their names.
• 美国是一个移民国家。
  Měiguó shì yī gè yímín guójiā.
  America is a land of immigrants.
• 你何时移民到我们国家?
  Nǐ héshí yímín dào wǒmen guójiā?
  When did you immigrate to our country?
• 移民川流不息地进入这个国家。
  Yímín chuānliúbùxī de jìnrù zhège guójiā.
  The immigrants entered the country in a steady flow.
• 移民们忍受着肉体和精神的痛苦。
  Yímín men rěnshòu zhe ròutǐ hé jīngshén de tòngkǔ.
  The emigrants have endured physical and mental pain.
• 若追根溯源，绝大多数美国人都是移民。
  Ruò zhuīgēnsùyuán, juédàduōshù Měiguórén dōu shì yímín.
  Most Americans are descended from immigrants.

Words starting with 移民

• 移民局yí mín júimmigration office
• 移民工yí mín gōngmigrant worker
• 移民者yí mín zhěmigrant; immigrant

Words containing 移民

• 投资移民tóu zī yí míninvestment immigration; immigrant investor
• 高考移民gāo kǎo yí mínstudents who relocate to another region of China in order to gain an advantage on the…
• 迁居移民qiān jū yí mínimmigration

Sounds the same

Read yí mín, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 遗民(lit.) leftover men; (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty…

Where 移民 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Festivals, Origins & Reasons (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yí mín correctly.
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