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迁

qiān

HSK 6 Character Traditional 遷

What 迁 means

1. to move
2. to shift
3. to change (a position or location etc)
4. to promote

Example sentences

• 燕子在迁移。
  Yànzi zài qiānyí.
  The swallows are migrating.
• 星期五是乔迁派对!
  Xīngqīwǔ shì qiáoqiān pàiduì!
  Friday is housewarming party!
• 越来越多的人迁往市区。
  Yuèláiyuè duō de rén qiān wǎng shìqū.
  More and more people are moving to urban areas.
• 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.
• 迁移到南加州后，红冠鹦鹉已成为这里的永久栖息者，并被列入加州鸟类记录委员会的本国鸟类清单中。
  As transplants to Southern California, the red-crowned parrots have become such permanent fixtures that they are on the California Bird Records Committee’s list of birds in the state.

Words starting with 迁

• 迁徙qiān xǐto migrate; to move
• 迁就qiān jiùto yield to; to adapt to; to accommodate oneself to (sth)
• 迁移qiān yíto migrate; to move
• 迁入qiān rùto move in (to new lodging)
• 迁居qiān jūto move (from one residence to another)
• 迁都qiān dūto move the capital (city)
• 迁怒qiān nùto take one's anger out on sb (who does not deserve it)
• 迁延qiān yánlong delay
• 迁离qiān líto move away; to change residence
• 迁飞qiān fēito migrate (of birds)
• 迁安市Qiān ān ShìQian'an, a county-level city in Tangshan City 唐山市
• 迁居移民qiān jū yí mínimmigration
• 迁西县Qiān xī XiànQianxi, a county in Tangshan City 唐山市
• 迁怒于人qiān nù yú rénto vent one's anger on an innocent party (idiom)
• 迁安Qiān ānsee 迁安市
• 迁西Qiān xīsee 迁西县

Words containing 迁

• 变迁biàn qiānchanges; vicissitudes
• 拆迁chāi qiānto demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants
• 搬迁bān qiānto move; to relocate; removal
• 司马迁Sī mǎ QiānSima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史记
• 升迁shēng qiānto advance to a higher-level position; to be promoted to a higher position in a new…
• 时过境迁shí guò jìng qiānthings change with the passage of time (idiom)
• 他迁tā qiānto relocate; to move elsewhere
• 再迁zài qiānto promote again; reappointed
• 乔迁qiáo qiānto move (to a superior place); promotion
• 调迁diào qiānto transfer; to move; to shift
• 超迁chāo qiān(literary) to be promoted more than one grade or rank at a time…
• 高迁gāo qiānpromotion (honorific)
• 史景迁Shǐ Jǐng qiānJonathan D Spence (1936-), distinguished British US historian of China, author of The…
• 宿迁市Sù qiān ShìSuqian, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江苏省
• 搬迁户bān qiān hùperson or household that has to be relocated (to make way for a construction project etc)
• 事过境迁shì guò jìng qiānThe issue is in the past, and the situation has changed (idiom).…
• 乔迁之喜qiáo qiān zhī xǐcongratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home!
• 安土重迁ān tǔ zhòng qiānto hate to leave a place where one has lived long; to be attached to one's native land…
• 情随事迁qíng suí shì qiānfeelings change with circumstances (idiom)
• 网络迁移wǎng luò qiān yínetwork migration
• 见异思迁jiàn yì sī qiānto change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty…
• 民族大迁徙mín zú dà qiān xǐgreat migration of peoples
• 跃迁yuè qiāntransition; jump (e.g. quantum leap in spectroscopy)
• 宿迁Sù qiānsee 宿迁市

Characters that look like 迁

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

• 进jìnto go forward; to advance; to go in
• 还háistill; still in progress; still more
• 近jìnnear; close to; approximately
• 连liánto link; to join; to connect
• 迈màito take a step; to stride
• 迂yūliteral-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire

Sounds the same

Read qiān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 铅lead (chemistry)
• 千thousand
• 签to sign one's name; to write brief comments on a document…
• 牵to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve
• 谦modest
• 骞(literary) to hold high
• 搴to seize; to pull; to hold up the hem of clothes
• 褰to lift (clothes, sheets); lower garments
• 悭stingy
• 仟thousand (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
• 芊green; luxuriant growth
• 钎a drill (for boring through rock)