迁居 (qiān jū) — to move house, to change one's dwelling (formal) | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

Formal written term for 'to move house / change residence.' More literary than everyday 搬家, which is the spoken word for the same action.

verb

to move houseto change one's dwelling (formal)

Examples

迁居。
Tā men cóng shì zhōng xīn qiān jū dào le jiāo qū.
They moved from the city center to the suburbs.
。
Wǒ men jiā shí nián nèi qiān le sān cì jū.
Our family moved three times in ten years.
迁居，。
Zhè cì qiān jū hěn shùn lì, xīn jiā bǐ jiù jiā dà hěn duō.
This move went smoothly — the new house is much bigger than the old one.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

居jūdwelling

迁 (move) and 居 (dwelling) combine to mean moving one's residence.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

尸古居

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

古

古gǔ居jū

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

居 is built from 尸 as the meaning part and 古 (gǔ) as the sound part.

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