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to shift; to transfer
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The character 迻 is a phono-semantic compound and a classical variant of the more common 移, which means to move, transfer, or shift something from one place to another. It is structured with the semantic radical 辶 (walk, movement) wrapping around the left and bottom, indicating the action of locomotion, and the phonetic component 多 (yí) placed at the top right. Historically, this character was often employed in literary and classical texts to describe the relocation of objects or the transmission of written works, such as translation. In modern Chinese, 移, constructed with the grain radical 禾, has almost completely supplanted it for all these meanings and contexts.
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