The swallows are migrating.
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迁
Traditional: 遷
qiān
HSK 3.0 · 7–9
Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
qiān · cin1 (Jyutping)
- to move
- to shift
- to change (a position or location etc)
- to promote
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Character breakdown
迁
- Meaning
- move, shift, change; transfer; relocate a capital city
- Radical
- 辶
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- ⿺辶千
- Cangjie
- YHJ
- Four-corner
- 3230
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
More and more people are moving to urban areas.
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