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Kanji Detail for 遷 - "to move, to transfer, to change"
遷
- Meaning
遷 means "to move, to transfer, to change."
Move - To change location; to relocate.
Transfer - To shift from one place to another.
Change - To transform; to alter.
Transition - A passage from one state to another.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
transition; move; change
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
move, shift, change; transfer
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc); to promote
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to shift, to move; to transfer, to change
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To move; to relocate. As in moving residence is called 喬遷, moving the capital is called 遷都. | Moving office is called 遷. As in 一歲三遷 (promoted three times in one year). Therefore demotion is also called 左遷. | To change. As in 見異思遷 (change one's mind upon seeing something different). Also, reforming oneself is called 遷善.
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