Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 遷


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Meaning

transition, shift, move, transfer, change

Pronunciation

SEN
utsuru

Explanation

Left: movement , right: west 西, big , I/myself

Mnemonic

A movement in the west by the "Big Self" (= western egoism), means a real transition.

Radicals

movement(The radical shinnyuu stands for movement and thus has the same meaning as the very similar radical ennyou )
西 west(The upper stroke can be seen as horizon. Below a variante of sun and two legs , which here stand for a downward motion: Belos the horizon sinks the sun (at sunset) in the west.)
I, myself
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Vocabulary

変遷 へんせん change, transition, vicissitudes


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