The word 移民 is formed by combining two meaningful characters: 移 (yí), which means "to move" or "to relocate", and 民 (mín), which means "people" or "populace". Conceptually, it directly depicts the action and subject involved, the moving or relocating of people. When placed together, these characters create a single, intuitive unit that represents the idea of population movement, visually and semantically conveying "people in motion" to express the concept of migration or immigration.