遷

See also: 迁

遷	U+9077, 遷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9077

← 遶
[U+9076]

CJK Unified Ideographs

選 →
[U+9078]

Translingual

Han character

遷 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+12, 16 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 15 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜一田山 (YMWU), four-corner 3130₁, composition ⿺辶䙴)

Derived characters

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1265, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39123
Dae Jaweon: page 1761, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3881, character 2
Unihan data for U+9077

Chinese

trad.		遷
simp.		迁^*
alternative forms		𨙙䙴𠨧䙲𢍱𨙙䙴𠨧䙲𢍱𦦉𦦒𢍹𦧂𨙞迁拪䢬𢰕𢫥𠨩𠨨𨔰𨗺𨗇𨕞𨗢𨒿𨙘𪝴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 遷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (遷) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
遷	*sʰen
櫏	*sʰen
韆	*sʰen
僊	*sen
躚	sen, seːn
蹮	*seːn

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qiān (qian¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cin¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chhiên

(Meixian, Guangdong): qiên¹
Eastern Min (BUC): chiĕng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ceng¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chhian

(Teochew, Peng'im): ciang¹ / ciêng¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹chi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qiān
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cian
  - Wade–Giles: chʻien¹
  - Yale: chyān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chian
  - Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: cin¹
  - Yale: chīn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsin¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: qin¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhiên
  - Hakka Romanization System: qien^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: qian¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰi̯en²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: qiên¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁴⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: chiĕng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰieŋ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Jiangkou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ceng¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cheng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛŋ⁵³³/
- (Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ceng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰe̞ŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou, Youyang, Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ceng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛŋ⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhian
  - Tâi-lô: tshian
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiefn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiɛn³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɛn⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ciang¹ / ciêng¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiang / tshieng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiaŋ³³/, /t͡sʰieŋ³³/

Note:

ciang1 - Shantou;
ciêng1 - Chaozhou.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹chi
  - MiniDict: chi^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹qi
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕʰi⁵³/

Middle Chinese: tshjen

Rime
Character	遷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	七然切
Baxter	tshjen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰiᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰian/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰiɛn/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰĭɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cin¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ar/

(Zhengzhang): /*sʰen/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遷
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qiān
Middle Chinese	‹ tshjen ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ar/
English	move (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	遷
Reading #	1/1
No.	10233
Phonetic component	遷
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	遷
Old Chinese	/*sʰen/
Notes	說文上從囟聲

Definitions

遷

to ascend; to go up (to)
to promote; to be promoted (to a post)
to move (one's abode); to relocate; to migrate
國民政府遷臺／国民政府迁台 ― guómínzhèngfǔ qiān Tái ― relocation of the Government of the Republic of China to Taiwan
to change; to shift; to transfer
- 有顏回者好學，不遷怒，不貳過。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  有颜回者好学，不迁怒，不贰过。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Yǒu Yán Huí zhě hàoxué, bù qiānnù, bù èr guò. [Pinyin]
  There was Yan Hui; He loved to learn. He did not transfer his anger; he did not repeat a fault.
to banish; to send into exile
to banish from the court
to die; to decease
to disperse
(～州) (historical) Qian Prefecture
a surname, Qian

Synonyms

(to promote):

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升官 (shēngguān) (of an official)
升級 / 升级 (shēngjí)
升職 / 升职 (shēngzhí)
升遷 / 升迁 (shēngqiān) (to be transferred and promoted)
提任 (tírèn)
提升 (tíshēng)
晉升 / 晋升 (jìnshēng)
晉職 / 晋职 (jìnzhí)

(to relocate):

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徙動 / 徙动 (xǐdòng)
搬 (bān)
搬家 (bānjiā) (figurative)
搬移 (bānyí)
搬遷 / 搬迁 (bānqiān)
播 (literary)
遷徙 / 迁徙 (qiānxǐ)
遷移 / 迁移 (qiānyí)

(to change):

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修改 (xiūgǎi)
切換 / 切换 (qiēhuàn)
改動 / 改动 (gǎidòng)
改換 / 改换 (gǎihuàn)
改觀 / 改观 (gǎiguān) (to change appearance, to change one's view)
改變 / 改变 (gǎibiàn)
改造 (gǎizào)
更動 / 更动 (gēngdòng)
更換 / 更换 (gēnghuàn)
更改 (gēnggǎi)
游移 (yóuyí)
移 (yí)
移易 (yíyì) (literary)
竄 / 窜 (cuàn) (literary, or in compounds, to revise text)
竄亂 / 窜乱 (cuànluàn) (literary)
變 / 变 (biàn)
變換 / 变换 (biànhuàn)
變易 / 变易 (biànyì)
變更 / 变更 (biàngēng)
變變 / 变变 (Hokkien)
變革 / 变革 (biàngé) (chiefly social systems)
轉化 / 转化 (zhuǎnhuà)
轉換 / 转换 (zhuǎnhuàn)
轉變 / 转变 (zhuǎnbiàn)
革變 / 革变 (gébiàn) (literary)

Compounds

References

“遷”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[3], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “迁”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 213.

Japanese

Shinjitai	遷
Kyūjitai ^[1]^[2]	遷󠄁 遷+`󠄁`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	遷󠄇 遷+`󠄇`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
	遷󠄃 遷+`󠄃`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	遷󠄅 遷+`󠄅`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

遷

(Jōyō kanji)

transition, move, change

Readings

Go-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)^{←せん (sen, historical)}
Kan-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)^{←せん (sen, historical)}
Kun: うつる (utsuru, 遷る)、うつす (utsusu, 遷す)

Compounds

References

^ “遷”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
^ 白川静 (Shirakawa Shizuka) (2014) “遷”, in 字通 (Jitsū)‎^[2] (in Japanese), popular edition, Tōkyō: Heibonsha, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 遷 (MC tshjen).

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʰʌ̹n]
Phonetic hangul: [천]

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

遷

Wikisource

遷 (eumhun 옮길 천 (omgil cheon))

move
change

Compounds

개과천선 (改過遷善, gaegwacheonseon)
교천 (喬遷, gyocheon)
굴천 (屈遷, gulcheon)
난천 (灤遷, nancheon)
내천 (內遷, naecheon)
누천 (累遷, nucheon)
동천 (東遷, dongcheon)
맹모삼천 (孟母三遷, maengmosamcheon)
변천 (變遷, byeoncheon)
불천 (不遷, bulcheon)
삼천 (三遷, samcheon)
서천 (西遷, seocheon)
승천 (陞遷, seungcheon)
아관파천 (俄館播遷, agwanpacheon)
옹천 (甕遷, ongcheon)
외천 (外遷, oecheon)
우천 (優遷, ucheon)
우천 (右遷, ucheon)
적천 (謫遷, jeokcheon)
조천 (祧遷, jocheon)
조천 (調遷, jocheon)
좌천 (左遷, jwacheon)
천개 (遷改, cheon'gae)
천객 (遷客, cheon'gaek)
천거 (遷居, cheon'geo)
천계 (遷階, cheon'gye)
천관 (遷官, cheon'gwan)
천노 (遷怒, cheonno)
천대 (遷代, cheondae)
천도 (遷都, cheondo)
천동 (遷動, cheondong)
천력 (遷歷, cheollyeok)
천류 (遷流, cheollyu)
천릉 (遷陵, cheolleung)
천묘 (遷墓, cheonmyo)
천백 (遷伯, cheonbaek)
천복 (遷卜, cheonbok)
천불 (遷佛, cheonbul)
천사 (遷徙, cheonsa)
천색 (遷色, cheonsaek)
천선 (遷善, cheonseon)
천승 (遷陞, cheonseung)
천안 (遷安, cheonan)
천어 (遷御, cheoneo)
천역 (遷易, cheonyeok)
천연 (遷延, cheonyeon)
천예 (遷瘞, cheonye)
천와 (遷訛, cheonwa)
천이 (遷移, cheoni)
천인 (遷人, cheonin)
천임 (遷任, cheonim)
천장 (遷葬, cheonjang)
천적 (遷謫／遷讁, cheonjeok)
천전 (遷奠, cheonjeon)
천전 (遷轉, cheonjeon)
천조 (遷厝, cheonjo)
천좌 (遷座, cheonjwa)
천주 (遷注, cheonju)
천직 (遷職, cheonjik)
천차 (遷差, cheoncha)
천체 (遷替, cheonche)
천추 (遷推, cheonchu)
천취 (遷就, cheonchwi)
천행 (遷幸, cheonhaeng)
천현 (遷峴, cheonhyeon)
천현 (遷縣, cheonhyeon)
천화 (遷化, cheonhwa)
체천 (遞遷, checheon)
초천 (超遷, chocheon)
추천 (驟遷, chucheon)
탑천 (塌遷, tapcheon)
토천 (兔遷, tocheon)
파천 (播遷, pacheon)
폄천 (貶遷, pyeomcheon)
평천 (平遷, pyeongcheon)
화천 (化遷, hwacheon)

References

Naver Hanja Dictionary: 遷

Vietnamese

Han character

遷: Hán Nôm readings: thiên

character	lingusitic context （㗂越）	lingusitic context （english）	Radical(s)	source
遷/偏	thiên (xê dịch, thay đổi)	to move, to modify	辶辵 xước	viện nghiên cứu hán nôm

[1] “遷”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

[2] 白川静 (Shirakawa Shizuka) (2014) “遷”, in 字通 (Jitsū)‎^[2] (in Japanese), popular edition, Tōkyō: Heibonsha, →ISBN

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