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Chinese symbol for “migration”

移动
yí dòng
Traditional: 移動
to move; movement; migration; mobile

The closest CC-CEDICT match for migration is 移动 (yí dòng), defined as: to move; movement; migration; mobile; portable.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

移 yí
to shift, to move about, to drift
radical 115 ⽲ · 11 strokes
动 dòng
to move, to happen; movement, action
radical 19 ⼒ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “migration”

WordPinyinMeaning
运移 (運移)yùn yímigration (geology)
割接gē jiē(network) cutover; (system) migration

Related words

Other words that share a character with 移动.

WordPinyinMeaning
移民yí mínto immigrate; to migrate
转移 (轉移)zhuǎn yíto shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc)
迁移 (遷移)qiān yíto migrate; to move
移植yí zhíto transplant
移交yí jiāoto transfer; to hand over
活动 (活動)huó dòngto exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
运动 (運動)yùn dòngto move; to exercise
行动 (行動)xíng dòngoperation; action

See also: Japanese symbol for “migration”.

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.

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