Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- qiān
English
- move, shift, change
- to move
- transfer
- to shift
- to change (a position or location etc)
- to promote
- (formal) to move things on a large scale
- to move; to shift; to change
粵語
- （正式場合）大規模嘅移動
- 大範圍嘅變化或者物件嘅移位
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 遷
- 變遷bin3 cin1
changes
- 遷就cin1 zau6
to yield to; to adapt to; to accommodate oneself to (sth)
- 遷移cin1 ji4
to migrate
- 搬遷bun1 cin1
to move
- 遷徙cin1 saai2
to migrate
- 遷居cin1 geoi1
to move (from one residence to another)
- 升遷sing1 cin1
to advance to a higher-level position; to be promoted to a higher position in a new department
- 遷離cin1 lei4
to move away
- 遷都cin1 dou1
to move the capital (city)
- 遷冊cin1 caak3
change of domicile
- 喬遷kiu4 cin1
to move (to a superior place)
- 遷怒cin1 nou6
to take one's anger out on sb (who does not deserve it)
- 遷飛cin1 fei1
to migrate (of birds)
- 逼遷bik1 cin1
to force somebody to leave a house or land; to evict somebody
- 遷延cin1 jin4
long delay
- 迫遷bik1 cin1
to force somebody to leave a house or land; to evict somebody
- 躍遷joek6 cin1
transition
- 拆遷caak3 cin1
to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants
- 搬遷戶bun1 cin1 wu6
person or household that has to be relocated (to make way for a construction project etc)
- 遷入cin1 jap6
to move in (to new lodging)
- 高遷gou1 cin1
promotion (honorific)
- 遷西cin1 sai1
see 遷西縣|迁西县[Qian1 xi1 Xian4]
- 他遷taa1 cin1
to relocate
- 再遷zoi3 cin1
to promote again