漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
移: shift, move
Also: change, drift, catch (cold, fire), pass into
JLPT N211 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
禾 carries the meaning · 多 gives the sound
11 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
イi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 移民いみんimmigrant
- 移動するいどうするmove, transfer, migrate
- 移転するいてんするmove, move house
- 移植するいしょくするtransplant, graft [v.t.]
- 移籍するいせきするchange family or team
- 移住するいじゅうするmigrate, immigrate, emigrate
- 転移するてんいするspread, metastasize
うつるutsuru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 移るうつるmove, spread, transfer [v.i.]
うつすutsusu · kun'yomi
- 移すうつすmove, spread, transfer [v.t.]
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)禾 (meaning) + 多 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 移 (rev. 92719829), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Grain (禾) + many (多). While listed here because of its top-left sweep, it shows the "shifting" and "moving" of many grains from one place to another.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yí
Same form: 移 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 移 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 移 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yí most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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