qiān
component HSK 7-9 #17,520

Meanings

  1. 1 to move
  2. 2 to shift
  3. 3 to change

Examples

Bānqiān
to relocate; to move
Qiānyí
to migrate; to move

Tips

usage
movement + thousand — moving a thousand miles to a new place

Components

radical
chuò
walk; motion (radical form of 辵)
Wrap-under motion radical — the side-form of , a foot taking a step along a road. The indexing radical, anchoring in the movement family alongside (advance), 退 (retreat), (return), (deliver). specifically means to move one's dwelling — relocating, migrating, transferring (迁徙, 搬迁).
phonetic
qiān
thousand (here phonetic)
Upper-right supplies the sound directly — qiān matches the whole reading with no drift. itself was originally a person with a horizontal stroke marking the number one thousand. Same phonetic feeds (path between fields), (formal thousand), and surfaces in (small steel rod). Purely sound-bearing here.

Stroke Order

qiān