(literary) to change one's residence

= + : Marie Curie (xi) wants to change her residence (徙), but there is a barrier (歨, top) in the space station (Ø3) blocking her path. To get over the barrier she uses a syringe (歨, bottom) to pump up her black sneakers (彳) so she can just jump over the barrier and change her residence (徙) to the other side of the barrier.

徙 character breakdown

step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍[chi4 chu4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol for the step with the left foot: a black sneaker, because black sneakers are popular at least with the leftists I met.

Rosa Luxemburg (亻) just finished her banana (丿) and throws the peel over her shoulder in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Charlie Chaplin (彳), wearing a black sneaker on his left foot, manages to step on the banana peel with his left foot and fall over even in zero gravity.
old variant of 步[bu4]

Characters with 徙 as component

to waste (Cantonese)
slippers
sieve / to sift, to strain
band for the hair
(grass) / increase five fold
slippers

Words with 徙

to migrate / to move
lit. to bend the chimney and remove the firewood (to prevent fire) (idiom) / fig. to take preventive measures
to migrate / to move house

Sentences with 徙

徙 currently does not appear in any sentence.