qiān

move

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
辶 meaning component

  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

is a component form of .

千 sound component

  Sound component

qiān

  

thousand

Evolution

迁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
迁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
迁 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
迁 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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qiān

move, shift, change; transfer; to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc); to promote

Most common words with 迁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拆迁

to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants

to move

搬迁

to move

迁移

to migrate

迁徙

to migrate

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.3500% of movies

2419th most common character in movies

1630th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+8FC1


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