迁

遷
qiān
verb HSK 7-9 #17,520

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 4
Zhè jiā gōngchǎng míngnián yào bānqiān dào jiāoqū.
This factory is relocating to the suburbs next year.
HSK 5
Zhèxiē nián, xǔduō rén cóng nóngcūn qiānyí dào chéngshì.
In recent years, many people have moved from the countryside to the cities.

Tips

usage
辶 movement + 千 thousand - moving a thousand miles to a new place

Components

radical
辶 chuò
walk; motion (radical form of 辵)
Wrap-under motion radical 辶 - the side-form of 辵, a foot taking a step along a road. The indexing radical, anchoring 迁 in the movement family alongside 进 (advance), 退 (retreat), 返 (return), 送 (deliver). 迁 specifically means to move one's dwelling - relocating, migrating, transferring (迁徙, 搬迁).
phonetic
千 qiān
thousand (here phonetic)
Upper-right 千 supplies the sound directly - qiān matches the whole reading with no drift. 千 itself was originally a person with a horizontal stroke marking the number one thousand. Same phonetic feeds 阡 (path between fields), 仟 (formal thousand), and surfaces in 钎 (small steel rod). Purely sound-bearing here.

Stroke Order

迁 qiān