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Chinese symbol for “transplant”

移植
yí zhí
to transplant

The closest CC-CEDICT match for transplant is 移植 (yí zhí), defined as: to transplant.

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Characters and stroke order

移 yí
to shift, to move about, to drift
radical 115 ⽲ · 11 strokes
植 zhí
tree, plant; to grow
radical 75 ⽊ · 12 strokes

Other Chinese words for “transplant”

WordPinyinMeaning
移栽yí zāito transplant (horticulture, agriculture)
栽植zāi zhíto plant; to transplant
莳 (蒔)shì(literary) to grow; (literary) to transplant

Related words

Other words that share a character with 移植.

WordPinyinMeaning
移民yí mínto immigrate; to migrate
移动 (移動)yí dòngto move; movement
转移 (轉移)zhuǎn yíto shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc)
迁移 (遷移)qiān yíto migrate; to move
移交yí jiāoto transfer; to hand over
植物zhí wùplant; vegetation
种植 (種植)zhòng zhíto plant; to grow (a crop); to cultivate
植入zhí rùto implant

See also: Japanese symbol for “transplant”.

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.