qiān
move, shift
Phonosemantic compound. 𠨧 represents the sound and 辶 represents the meaning.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 遷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants | ||
to move | ||
to move | ||
to migrate | ||
to migrate |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tsʰ]ar | tshjen | qiān | move (v.) |
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 | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9077 |
Shuowen | “遷,登也。从辵,聲。拪,古文遷从手、西。” |
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