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.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “migration”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 移动.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 移民 | yí mín | to immigrate; to migrate |
| 转移 (轉移) | zhuǎn yí | to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) |
| 迁移 (遷移) | qiān yí | to migrate; to move |
| 移植 | yí zhí | to transplant |
| 移交 | yí jiāo | to transfer; to hand over |
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 运动 (運動) | yùn dòng | to move; to exercise |
| 行动 (行動) | xíng dòng | operation; 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.