徙

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(literary) to change one's residence

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Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

Ideographic compound (会意字)

To step 彳 out on a long journey 歨

Components 彳歨

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
民族大迁徙	mín zú dà qiān xǐ	great migration of peoples
曲突徙薪	qū tū xǐ xīn	lit. to bend the chimney and remove the firewood (to prevent fire) (idiom); fig. to take p…
转徙	zhuǎn xǐ	to migrate; to move house
迁徙	qiān xǐ	to migrate; to move

These characters use 徙 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
徙 sound part	xǐ	to move, to shift; to migrate
蓰	xǐ	to increase five-fold