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to shift; to relocate; to transfer / (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) / (medicine) to metastasize
HSK 4
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  *移* | 移* | *移
to move / to shift / to change / to alter / to remove
HSK 4
to move / movement / migration / mobile / portable
HSK 4
to immigrate / to migrate / emigrant / immigrant
HSK 4
the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way
HSK 7-9
to migrate / to move
HSK 7-9
to transfer / to hand over
HSK 7-9
to transplant
HSK 7-9
(of time) to elapse; to pass / (of a situation) to develop; to evolve / to shift; to slide; to move smoothly and continuously along a surface
HSK 7-9
imperceptible influence / to influence secretly
HSK 7-9
to migrate / to move to a new place of residence
to shift / to transfer
translation (geometry)
to shift / shift / translocation / displacement / (medicine) dislocation
not shaken by poverty / to preserve one's ambitions although destitute
(idiom) to reform habits and customs
unswerving / unflinching
steadfast / inalienable
to move (house) / to relocate / removals
it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom) / you can't change who you are / Can the leopard change his spots?
lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星 has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 斗轉星移|斗转星移
mobile telephone
lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星 has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 星移斗轉|星移斗转
change of affection, shift of love (idiom); to change one's feelings to another love / to fall in love with sb else
to shift one's eyes / (fig.) to shift one's attention / to divert attention
for a while
migrant / immigrant
immigration office
intangible changes / unnoticed transformation / changes behind the scenes
It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are. / Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)
to wander / to shift around / to waver / to vacillate
(geometry) displacement (a vector quantity)
lit. to graft flowers onto a tree (idiom) / fig. to surreptitiously substitute one thing for another
to drift
to transplant (horticulture, agriculture)
lit. to move mountains and drain seas / to transform nature
to redirect one's affections / (of literature etc) to cultivate people's character / empathy (i.e. attribution of feelings to an object) / transference (psychology)
to transpose (music)
to remove
to use (sth) for a purpose other than its original one; to adapt (tools, methods etc) for another purpose
established and irrefutable (idiom)
to migrate / to resettle
displacement / deviation / offset
to transfer (a case, a person, files etc)
(sediment) transport
to tow / (computing) to drag
to drift
moving average (in financial analysis)
to bring to justice; to hand over to the law
to move away
to slip / to drift
to relocate a piece of equipment (air conditioner etc)
variant of 移植
mobile device (smartphone, tablet, etc)
(medicine) bone marrow transplant
China Mobile (PRC state telecommunications company)
to move one's base (of operations) / to reposition / to relocate
(Tw) foreign worker (abbr. for 移住勞工|移住劳工)
mobility
portable (programming language)
portability (programming language)
telekinesis
to move away
to move troops to / (fig.) to move to / to shift to
(organ) transplant operation
migrant worker
red shift (astronomy)
students who relocate to another region of China in order to gain an advantage on the college entrance exam
coronary bypass operation
reach truck
organ transplant
continental drift
mass transfer (in LED panel manufacturing)
(medicine) metastasis
investment immigration / immigrant investor
to talk slowly and in depth (idiom)
rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder
to oscillate without pause (idiom) / to fluctuate / (of thoughts) to wander / to waver
teleportation
to put to a different use / to borrow / (linguistics) borrowing
moving average index (used in financial analysis)
mobile
mobile telephone
portable hard drive; external hard drive
cell phone network
the will to move mountains / fig. high ambitions
portability
pipette
network migration
one's habits change with long custom
blue shift (astronomy)
to relocate / to evacuate
transfer payment (payment from government or private sector for which no good or service is required in return)
migration (geology)
metastasis
immigration


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