Chinese symbol for “translocation”
移位
yí wèi
to shift; shift; translocation; displacement
The closest CC-CEDICT match for translocation is 移位 (yí wèi), defined as: to shift; shift; translocation; displacement; (medicine) dislocation.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “translocation”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 移位.
| 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 |
| 单位 (單位) | dān wèi | unit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole) |
| 位于 (位於) | wèi yú | to be located at; to be situated at |
See also: Japanese symbol for “translocation”.
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.