遷

See also: 迁

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)

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

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Chinese

trad.		遷
simp.		迁*

Glyph origin

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
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhian

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ciang¹ / ciêng¹

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• 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 Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhiên
    • Hakka Romanization System: qien´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qian¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰi̯en²⁴/
• 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.

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• 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/
Bernard 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

(deprecated template usage) 遷

1. to ascend; to go up (to)
2. to promote; to be promoted (to a post)
3. to move (one's abode); to relocate; to migrate
4. to change; to shift; to transfer

   • 有顏回者好學，不遷怒，不貳過。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     有颜回者好学，不迁怒，不贰过。 [Classical Chinese, 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.

5. to banish; to send into exile
6. to banish from the court
7. to die; to decease
8. to disperse
9. (～州) (historical) Qian Prefecture
10. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

遷

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen, Jōyō)
• Kun: うつる (utsuru, 遷る); うつす (utsusu, 遷す)

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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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   • 遷都/천도, 遷移/천이, 遷職/천직, 改過遷善/개과천선, 孟母三遷/맹모삼천, 變遷/변천, 俄館播遷/아관파천, 左遷/좌천, 遞遷/체천

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 遷 (thiên)

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