Chinese symbol for “resettle”

移住

yí zhù

to migrate; to resettle

The closest CC-CEDICT match for resettle is 移住 (yí zhù), defined as: to migrate; to resettle.

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Characters and stroke order

移 yí

to shift, to move about, to drift

radical 115 ⽲ · 11 strokes

住 zhù

to reside, to live at, to dwell, to lodge; to stop

radical 9 ⼈ · 7 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 移住.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
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)
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
居住	jū zhù	to reside; to dwell
住宅	zhù zhái	residence; dwelling; abode

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.