CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- qian1
- English meanings
- movement, change, move
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Enclosed from the lower left structure
Enclosed from the lower left arrangement: outside 辶; inside 千.
Meaning & sound clues
辶 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “walk”.
千 is identified as the sound component (qiān). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 迁.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
Qian (heaven trigram)
front
thousand
moat; trench
inlay; embed
yawn
apology
easy
dive; latent
pull
sign
euryale; starch
pious; sincere
modest; humble
blame; condemn
send; dispatch
sum
pliers; clamp
lead (chemistry)
Example sentences
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Related words
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- 变迁
- 拆迁
- 搬迁
- 迁就
- 迁移