遷

See also: 迁

Translingual

Han character

遷 (radical 162 辵+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜一田山 (YMWU), four-corner 3130₁, composition ⿺辶䙴)

1. to move, shift, change
2. transfer

References

• KangXi: page 1265, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39123
• Dae Jaweon: page 1761, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3881, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9077

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Chinese

trad.		遷
simp.		迁

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiān (qian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhiên
• Min Nan (POJ): chhian

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ien¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chian
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cin¹
    • Yale: chīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhiên
    • Hakka Romanization System: qien´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qian¹
    • IPA: /t͡ɕʰi̯en²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhian
    • Tâi-lô: tshian
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiefn
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰiᴇn/▼

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰiᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰian/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰiɛn/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰĭɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiān

• 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

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Japanese

Kanji

遷

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: うつる (utsuru), うつす (utsusu)

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Korean

Hanja

遷 • ‎(cheon)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 천 (revised: cheon, McCune-Reischauer: ch'ŏn, Yale: chen)

• Name (hangeul): 옮길()

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Vietnamese

Han character

遷 (thiên)

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