HSK 6 · Verbs

迁就 qiānjiù “to accommodate” in Chinese

Traditional 遷就

What 迁就 means

  1. to accommodate
  2. to give in to
  3. to humour
  4. to yield to
  5. to adapt to
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to accommodate oneself to (sth)

How to say 迁就

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale迁qiān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale就jiù4th tone, falling

迁就 in a sentence

  1. 父母不能什么事都迁就孩子。

    Fùmǔ bù néng shénme shì dōu qiānjiù háizi.

    Parents shouldn’t give in to their children on everything.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 为了迁就我的时间，他把会议改到了下午。

    Wèile qiānjiù wǒ de shíjiān, tā bǎ huìyì gǎi dào le xiàwǔ.

    He moved the meeting to the afternoon to fit in with my schedule.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 迁就 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 迁 (qiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
迁qiānto move
  • 千thousand · qiānSound part
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuòMeaning part

辶 hints at the meaning (walking); 千 (qiān) hints at the sound. Compare it with qiān.

The character 就 (jiù) with each of its parts in a different colour
就jiùin that case; then
  • 京capital city · jīngSound part
  • 尤especially · yóuMeaning part

尤 hints at the meaning (especially); 京 (jīng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiù.

How to write 迁就

迁 6 strokes · 就 12 strokes

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迁就 (qiānjiù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 迁就 (qiānjiù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 迁就

Words with 迁

迁徙qiānxǐ · to migrate变迁biànqiān · changes

Words with 就

就jiù · then就要jiùyào · about to就是jiùshì · exactly成就chéngjiù · accomplishment就近jiùjìn · nearby将就jiāngjiu · to make do就业jiùyè · employment就职jiùzhí · to take office

More words: Common Verbs

牵qiān · to lead (by the hand or a rope)牵扯qiānchě · to involve抢救qiǎngjiù · to rescue强迫qiǎngpò · to force迁徙qiānxǐ · to migrate牵制qiānzhì · to contain翘qiào · to stick up起草qǐcǎo · to draft

FAQs

迁就 (qiānjiù) means “to accommodate” or “to give in to”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it qiānjiù: qiān with a 1st tone, then jiù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 迁就 is written 遷就. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qianjiu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 迁就 from the suggestions. Typing qianjiu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
迁就 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.