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Chinese symbol for “metastasis”

远端转移
yuǎn duān zhuǎn yí
Traditional: 遠端轉移
metastasis

The closest CC-CEDICT match for metastasis is 远端转移 (yuǎn duān zhuǎn yí), defined as: metastasis.

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Characters and stroke order

远 yuǎn
distant, remote, far; profound
radical 162 ⾡ · 7 strokes
端 duān
end, extreme; head; beginning
radical 117 ⽴ · 14 strokes
转 zhuǎn
to move, to convey; to turn, to revolve, to circle; to forward mail
radical 159 ⾞ · 8 strokes
移 yí
to shift, to move about, to drift
radical 115 ⽲ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “metastasis”

WordPinyinMeaning
恶性转移 (惡性轉移)è xìng zhuǎn yí(medicine) metastasis

Related words

Other words that share a character with 远端转移.

WordPinyinMeaning
永远 (永遠)yǒng yuǎnforever; eternal
远离 (遠離)yuǎn líto be far from; to keep away from
遥远 (遙遠)yáo yuǎndistant; remote
远远 (遠遠)yuǎn yuǎndistant; by far
深远 (深遠)shēn yuǎnfar-reaching; profound and long-lasting
远程 (遠程)yuǎn chéngremote; long distance
极端 (極端)jí duānextreme
高端gāo duānhigh-end
转移 (轉移)zhuǎn yíto shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc)
移民yí mínto immigrate; to migrate

See also: Japanese symbol for “metastasis”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.