Chinese symbol for “transference”
移情
yí qíng
to redirect one's affections; (of literature etc) to cultivate people's character; empathy (i.e. attribution of feelings to an object); transference (psychology)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for transference is 移情 (yí qíng), defined as: to redirect one's affections; (of literature etc) to cultivate people's character; empathy (i.e. attribution of feelings to an object); transference (psychology).
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 移情.
| 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 |
| 情况 (情況) | qíng kuàng | circumstances; state of affairs; situation; 种 (zhǒng) |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business; measure word: 件 (jiàn), 桩 (zhuāng) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “transference”.
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.