漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
遷: transition, move
Also: change
JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 覀, 大 and 己 are drawn in
15 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
センsen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 変遷へんせんchange; transition; vicissitudes
- 遷都せんとrelocation of the capital
- 左遷させんdemotion; relegation; reduction in rank
- 遷宮せんぐうinstallation of a deity in a new shrine
Also read うつる, うつす, みやこがえ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 迁 · traditional, as in Japanese · qiān
Japan keeps the traditional form 遷; mainland China simplifies it to 迁.
- Simplified
- 迁 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 遷 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qiān 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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