迁 - qiān - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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遷 (迁)

qiān

Definition

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

Character Decomposition

Compounds (2)

韆

qiān

a swing; see: 鞦韆|秋千 [qiū qiān]

躚

xiān

to manner of dancing; to walk around

Related words (26)

遷入

qiān rù

to move in (to new lodging)

遷就

qiān jiù

to yield; to adapt to; to accommodate to (sth)

遷居

qiān jū

to move (from one residence to another)

long delay

to migrate; to move

to take one's anger out on sb (who does not deserve it)

遷離

qiān lí

to move away; to change residence

to migrate; to move

to move the capital (city)

遷飛

qiān fēi

to migrate (of birds)

immigration

to move (to a superior place); promotion

他遷

tā qiān

to relocate; to move elsewhere

再遷

zài qiān

to promote again; reappointed

promote; promotion

changes; vicissitudes

拆遷

chāi qiān

to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants

搬遷

bān qiān

to move; to relocate; removal

調遷

diào qiān

to transfer; to move; to shift

超遷

chāo qiān

(literary) to be promoted more than one grade or rank at a time; to be promoted ahead of time

躍遷

yuè qiān

transition; jump (e.g. quantum leap in spectroscopy)

高遷

gāo qiān

promotion (honorific)

搬遷戶

bān qiān hù

relocated household; unit that has moved

安土重遷

ān tǔ zhòng qiān

to hate to leave a place where one has lived long; to be attached to one's native land and unwilling to leave it

network migration

great migration of peoples

Idioms (5)

遷怒於人

qiān nù yú rén

to vent one's anger on an innocent party (idiom)

喬遷之喜

qiáo qiān zhī xǐ

congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home!

情隨事遷

qíng suí shì qiān

feelings change with circumstances (idiom)

時過境遷

shí guò jìng qiān

things change with the passage of time (idiom)

見異思遷

jiàn yì sī qiān

to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty; never satisfied with what one has

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