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转移

zhuǎn yí

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 轉移

转移 (zhuǎn yí) means "to shift; to relocate; to transfer". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 转移 means

1. to shift; to relocate; to transfer
2. (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc)
3. medicineto metastasize

The characters in 转移

• 转zhuǎnto turn; to change direction; to transfer
• 移yíto move; to shift; to change

Example sentences

• 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.
• 非洲是转移的大洲。
  Fēizhōu shì zhuǎnyí de dàzhōu.
  Africa is a continent of migration.
• 图阿雷格人该把他们的牲畜转移到山谷去了。
  It's time for the Tuaregs to transfer their herds to the valley.

Words starting with 转移

• 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
• 转移阵地zhuǎn yí zhèn dìto move one's base (of operations); to reposition; to relocate

Words containing 转移

• 远端转移yuǎn duān zhuǎn yímetastasis
• 恶性转移è xìng zhuǎn yí(medicine) metastasis
• 巨量转移jù liàng zhuǎn yímass transfer (in LED panel manufacturing)
• 瞬间转移shùn jiān zhuǎn yíteleportation

Where 转移 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhuān–zhuǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhuǎn yí correctly.
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