Chinese symbol for “shift”
转移
zhuǎn yí
Traditional: 轉移
to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize
The closest CC-CEDICT match for shift is 转移 (zhuǎn yí), defined as: to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “shift”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挪 | nuó | to shift; to move |
| 挪用 | nuó yòng | to shift (funds); to (legitimately) take funds set aside for one purpose in order to use them for another |
| 异动 (異動) | yì dòng | to shift; to alter; unusual change; abnormal move |
| 移位 | yí wèi | to shift; shift |
| 移转 (移轉) | yí zhuǎn | to shift; to transfer |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 转移.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 转变 (轉變) | zhuǎn biàn | to change; to transform |
| 转型 (轉型) | zhuǎn xíng | to undergo fundamental change; to transition; to transform; to update (to a new model of product) |
| 转化 (轉化) | zhuǎn huà | to change; to turn; to convert; (genetics) to transform |
| 转向 (轉向) | zhuǎn xiàng | to change direction; fig. to change one's stance |
| 移民 | yí mín | to immigrate; to migrate |
| 移动 (移動) | yí dòng | to move; movement |
| 迁移 (遷移) | qiān yí | to migrate; to move |
| 移植 | yí zhí | to transplant |
See also: Japanese symbol for “shift”.
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.