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qiān
HSK 3.0 Level 7

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Definitions

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

Example Sentences

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燕子在 移。
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 9958134)

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Words Containing 迁

迁离
qiān lí

to move away

宿迁市
sù qiān shì

Suqian, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu

迁徙
qiān xǐ

to migrate

迁就
qiān jiù

to yield

跃迁
yuè qiān

transition

超迁
chāo qiān

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

迁居移民
qiān jū yí mín

immigration

司马迁
sī mǎ qiān

Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[shǐ jì], known as the father of Chinese historiography

迁安市
qiān ān shì

Qian'an, county-level city in Tangshan 唐山[táng shān], Hebei

事过境迁
shì guò jìng qiān

The issue is in the past, and the situation has changed (idiom).

迁怒
qiān nù

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

史景迁
shǐ jǐng qiān

Jonathan D Spence (1936-), distinguished British US historian of China, author of The Search for Modern China 追尋現代中國|追寻现代中国[zhuī xún xiàn dài zhōng guó]

迁安
qiān ān

Qian'an, county-level city in Tangshan 唐山[táng shān], Hebei

迁飞
qiān fēi

to migrate (of birds)

他迁
tā qiān

to relocate

迁西县
qiān xī xiàn

Qianxi county in Tangshan 唐山[táng shān], Hebei

再迁
zài qiān

to promote again

搬迁
bān qiān

to move

迁怒于人
qiān nù yú rén

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

调迁
diào qiān

to transfer

宿迁
sù qiān

Suqian, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu

迁西
qiān xī

Qianxi county in Tangshan 唐山[táng shān], Hebei

拆迁
chāi qiān

to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants

民族大迁徙
mín zú dà qiān xǐ

great migration of peoples

乔迁之喜
qiáo qiān zhī xǐ

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

升迁
shēng qiān

to advance to a higher-level position; to be promoted to a higher position in a new department

时过境迁
shí guò jìng qiān

things change with the passage of time (idiom)

搬迁户
bān qiān hù

unit that has moved

情随事迁
qíng suí shì qiān

feelings change with circumstances (idiom)

迁入
qiān rù

to move in (to new lodging)

变迁
biàn qiān

changes

迁延
qiān yán

long delay

迁居
qiān jū

to move (from one residence to another)

迁移
qiān yí

to migrate

迁都
qiān dū

to move the capital (city)

见异思迁
jiàn yì sī qiān

to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty

乔迁
qiáo qiān

to move (to a superior place)

网络迁移
wǎng luò qiān yí

network migration

高迁
gāo qiān

promotion (honorific)

安土重迁
ān tǔ zhòng qiān

to hate to leave a place where one has lived long