迁 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

qiān HSK6

move

迁 (遷) qiān

move verb: to move, shift, or change position or location; 这家工厂下个月将迁至郊区。

zhè jiā gōngchǎng xià gè yuè jiāng qiān zhì jiāoqū.

The factory will move to the suburbs next month.

promote verb: to promote to a higher rank or position; 他在朝廷中立功后被迁为大将军。

tā zài cháotíng zhōng lìgōng hòu bèi qiān wéi dàjiāngjūn.

After his achievements at court, he was promoted to General-in-Chief.

Cross-References

Has old variant

拪 qiān

Frequency

Character

Written text: 1,630th most common 59.1 per million
Movie subtitles: 2,420th most common 9.76 per million appears in 5% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 1.40 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text: 14.8 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 6
HSK 3.0: Level 6
Traditional: 遷
Strokes: 6
Unicode: U+8FC1

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)