迁 (遷)
qiān
Pinyin

Definition

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

Character Decomposition

Compounds (1)

千
qiān
  1. 1 see also: 秋千 qiū qiān

Related Words (20)

升迁
shēng qiān
  1. 1 promote
  2. 2 promotion
拆迁
chāi qiān
  1. 1 to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants
变迁
biàn qiān
  1. 1 changes
  2. 2 vicissitudes
迁
qiān
  1. 1 to move
  2. 2 to shift
  3. 3 to change (a position or location etc)
  4. 4 to promote
迁就
qiān jiù
  1. 1 to yield
  2. 2 to adapt to
  3. 3 to accommodate to (sth)

Idioms (6)

事过境迁
shì guò jìng qiān
  1. 1 The issue is in the past, and the situation has changed (idiom).
  2. 2 It is water under the bridge.
乔迁之喜
qiáo qiān zhī xǐ
  1. 1 congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home!
情随事迁
qíng suí shì qiān
  1. 1 feelings change with circumstances (idiom)
时过境迁
shí guò jìng qiān
  1. 1 things change with the passage of time (idiom)
见异思迁
jiàn yì sī qiān
  1. 1 to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty
  2. 2 never satisfied with what one has

Sample Sentences

今年是“猴年”，除了新年快乐，还可以祝别人“马上封侯”，意思是很快就因为工作成绩好而得到升迁。
jīnnián shì “hóu nián ”，chúle xīnnián kuàilè ，hái kěyǐ zhù biérén “mǎshàng fēng hóu ”，yìsi shì hěnkuài jiù yīnwèi gōngzuò chéngjì hǎo ér dédào shēngqiān 。
This year is the year of the monkey. Apart from wishing someone 'Happy New Year', you can also wish them 'ma shang feng hou'. This means that you can get a promotion very soon because of good performance at work.
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这和中国自古是农耕社会，人们安土重迁有很大的关系吧。
zhè hé Zhōngguó zì gǔ shì nónggēng shèhuì ，rénmen āntǔzhòngqiān yǒu hěndà de guānxi ba 。
This has a lot to do with China being an agricultural society from ancient times and the people's attachment to a particular place.
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是啊，当初觉得高考结果决定了未来的人生，但时过境迁才发现，人生又何尝是一次高考就能决定这么简单的。
shì a ，dāngchū juéde gāokǎo jiéguǒ juédìng le wèilái de rénshēng ，dàn shíguòjìngqiān cái fāxiàn ，rénshēng yòu hécháng shì yīcì gāokǎo jiù néng juédìng zhème jiǎndān de 。
Yeah, at first I thought that the results of the college entrance examination decided a person's future, but as things have changed over time, I realized that life is in no way simple enough for one college entrance exam to decide.
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可以说，正是张勇奠定了阿里巴巴从PC端向移动互联变迁的最重要基础。
kěyǐ shuō ，zhèngshì zhāngyǒng diàndìng le ālǐbābā cóng PC duān xiàng yídòng hùlián biànqiān de zuì zhòngyào jīchǔ 。
You can say it is Zhang Yong who laid the most important foundation for Alibaba's transition from internet PC to mobile.
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哎呀，我们的老板不会哪天也来个大迁徙吧?
āiyā ，wǒmen de lǎobǎn bùhuì nǎtiān yě lái gè dà qiānxǐ ba ?
Jeez, our boss won't make this big move too, right?
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其实我也没见过，听说记着我们家是从山东迁到河南的，后来又迁到江苏。其它的都是人名吧。
qíshí wǒ yě méi jiàn guo ，tīngshuō jì zhe wǒmen jiā shì cóng shāndōng qiān dào Hénán de ，hòulái yòu qiān dào Jiāngsū 。qítā de dōu shì rénmíng ba 。
To tell the truth, I've never seen it. I've heard that it records our family's movement from Shandong to Henan, and then to Jiangsu. The rest is just names.
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我看现在城市化就是征地、拆迁、盖楼。基础建设搞得再好，楼房盖得再多有什么用。那个小城能吸纳多少农民就业？农民就是都住进楼房也变不成城里人。就说早几年被征地的那几个村吧，倒是家家住进了楼房，成了市民。当时的补偿款给得也少，他们早就花完了，现在又没地，又没钱，农民不像农民，市民不像市民，无业游民倒是挺多，那日子过得，就快成贫民窟了。
wǒ kàn xiànzài chéngshìhuà jiùshì zhēngdì 、chāiqiān 、gàilóu 。jīchǔjiànshè gǎo de zài hǎo ，lóufáng gài de zài duō yǒu shénme yòng 。nàge xiǎochéng néng xīnà duōshao nóngmín jiùyè ？nóngmín jiùshì dōu zhùjìn lóufáng yě biàn bùchéng chénglǐrén 。jiù shuō zǎo jǐnián bèi zhēngdì de nà jǐ ge cūn ba ，dàoshì jiājiā zhùjìn le lóufáng ，chéng le shìmín 。dāngshí de bǔchángkuǎn gěi de yě shǎo ，tāmen zǎo jiù huā wán le ，xiànzài yòu méi dì ，yòu méi qián ，nóngmín bù xiàng nóngmín ，shìmín bù xiàng shìmín ，wúyèyóumín dàoshì tǐng duō ，nà rìzi guò de ，jiù kuài chéng pínmínkōng le 。
The urbanization I see nowadays is just land requisition, demolition of old buildings and building new ones. No matter how good the infrastructure is or how many buildings are built, what good is it? How many farmers can those small cities employ? Just living in a building doesn't make farmers into city dwellers. Look at all those families in the villages who had their land requisitioned before that have all settled in buildings and become city dwellers. At the time, the compensation they got was so little, they ended up spending everything a while ago. Now they don't have any land and they don't have any money either. They're farmers who aren't like farmers and city dwellers who aren't like city dwellers. They're actually a lot of vagrants. Living in this way, they'll find themselves living in slums soon.
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潮来潮往世界多变迁
cháoláicháowǎng shìjiè duō biànqiān
The world is full of change rising and falling
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一个管理严格的国家，它的人民一定狡猾。“小国寡民”才是理想的国家：国土小，人口少，不用交通工具，人民不用迁徙，不用学习文化知识，靠着纯真善良的本性，过简朴的生活。人民没有什么需求，国家就不用设立严厉的刑法，也就没有战争和冲突，用不着武器和军队。在自己国家就可以看到邻国，听到鸡鸣狗吠，但从生到死都不来往。
yī ge guǎnlǐ yángé de guójiā ，tā de rénmín yīdìng jiǎohuá 。“xiǎoguóguǎmín ”cái shì lǐxiǎng de guójiā ：guótǔ xiǎo ，rénkǒu shǎo ，bùyòng jiāotōng gōngjù ，rénmín bùyòng qiānxǐ ，bùyòng xuéxí wénhuà zhīshi ，kàozhe chúnzhēn shànliáng de běnxìng ，guò jiǎnpǔ de shēnghuó 。rénmín méiyǒu shénme xūqiú ，guójiā jiù bùyòng shèlì yánlì de xíngfǎ ，yě jiù méiyǒu zhànzhēng hé chōngtū ，yòngbuzháo wǔqì hé jūnduì 。zài zìjǐ guójiā jiù kěyǐ kàndào línguó ，tīngdào jī míng gǒu fèi ，dàn cóng shēng dào sǐ dōu bù láiwǎng 。
A country ruled with an iron fist will have devious citizens. "A small country with few citizens" is ideal with a small land area and small population. There is no need for conveyances and the people needn't migrate or move. There's no need for formal education. It relies on pure and honest human nature; life is plain and simple. The people need nothing, so the country has no need to establish a strict penal system. There will be no war or conflict, so there will be no need for weapons or soldiers. Neighboring countries can be seen and the sounds of their villages heard, but during their lives the people will have no interaction with them.
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哎，这儿终于要拆迁了。居委会的人找你谈了吗？
āi ，zhèr zhōngyú yào chāiqiān le 。jūwěihuì de rén zhǎo nǐ tán le ma ？
Ah, they're finally tearing down our building and relocating us. Did someone from the neighborhood committee have a talk with you?
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