Kanji1 / 15
遷 kanji
transition, move, change
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
セン
Kun readings
うつるうつすみやこがえ
Variant forms
迁Words with 遷
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1変遷Popularchange; transition; vicissitudes
- —左遷Populardemotion; relegation; reduction in rank; degradation; downward move
- —遷都Popularrelocation of the capital; transfer of the capital
- —遷移transition (esp. in scientific, computing, etc. contexts); succession
- —東遷moving (the capital) east
- —遷宮installation of a deity in a new shrine; transfer of a shrine
- —遷座relocation of a shrine; transfer of an object of worship
- —奉遷moving an object of worship
- —遷化death (of a high priest)
- —遷延delay; procrastination
- —遷幸relocation of the capital (by the emperor); relocation of the emperor or an abdicated emperor
- —遷客exiled person
- —聖遷Hegira; Hejira; Hijra
- —遷流transient
- —三遷thrice moving from house to house; the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning
- —鶯遷warbler flying from a valley to a tree; finding success in life; passing the palace examination
- —播遷wandering in a distant land
- —遷御relocation of the emperor, an abdicated emperor or the empress dowager; relocation of a shrine, divine spirit or object of worship
- —遷音速transonic speed
- —遷宮祭transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is moved from one building to another)