verb HSK 4 #2,583

Meanings

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

Characters

(grain) + (many) — moving grain from place to place.

Examples

Qǐng bǎ yǐzi yí yīxià.
Please move the chair a bit.
Tā bǎ mùguāng yí dào le chuāngwài.
He shifted his gaze to outside the window.
Bùyào yí kāi nǐ de shǒu.
Don't move your hand away.

Tips

usage
often appears with directional complements: 移开 (move away), 移到 (move to), 移过来 (move over here). It implies a controlled, deliberate movement rather than casual motion.

Components

radical
standing grain (radical)
Left grain radical — the indexing radical, depicting a stalk of cereal with a bowed head ripe for harvest. Originally referred to transplanting young rice seedlings, hence the grain anchor. Same radical sits in to plant, autumn, rice, second-of-time (a tiny grain-tip).
phonetic
duō
many (phonetic)
Right side supplies the sound — duō drifted to yí through Old Chinese alternation (sharing the same final). itself stacks two (evening), but the 'many' meaning is incidental here — pure phonetic role. Same phonetic series produces extravagant and to tremble.

Stroke Order