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迁就

qiān jiù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 遷就

迁就 (qiān jiù) means "to yield; to adapt to; to accommodate to (sth)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 迁就 means

1. to yield to; to adapt to; to accommodate oneself to (sth)

The characters in 迁就

• 迁qiānto move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc)
• 就jiù(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as…

Sounds the same

Read qiān jiù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 牵就to concede; to give up

Where 迁就 is taught

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

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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