Chinese symbol for “migrate”
迁移
qiān yí
Traditional: 遷移
to migrate; to move
The closest CC-CEDICT match for migrate is 迁移 (qiān yí), defined as: to migrate; to move.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “migrate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 迁徙 (遷徙) | qiān xǐ | to migrate; to move |
| 移居 | yí jū | to migrate; to move to a new place of residence |
| 洄游 | huí yóu | (of fish) to migrate |
| 移民 | yí mín | to immigrate; to migrate |
| 迁飞 (遷飛) | qiān fēi | to migrate (of birds) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 迁移.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 变迁 (變遷) | biàn qiān | changes; vicissitudes |
| 拆迁 (拆遷) | chāi qiān | to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants |
| 搬迁 (搬遷) | bān qiān | to move; to relocate |
| 迁徙 (遷徙) | qiān xǐ | to migrate; to move |
| 迁居 (遷居) | qiān jū | to move (from one residence to another) |
| 移民 | yí mín | to immigrate; to migrate |
| 移动 (移動) | yí dòng | to move; movement |
| 转移 (轉移) | zhuǎn yí | to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “migrate”.
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.