搬迁
bān qiān · HSK 7
to move
📦🚚 bān sounds like van — the vehicle you rent to relocate
迁 pairs the walking radical (辶) with 千 thousand — a thousand steps to your new place. 搬 has the hand radical (扌) for carrying boxes.
搬 — hand 扌 + 般 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 gives the meaning of physical action — moving or carrying things — while 般 (bān) supplies the sound. 般 originally depicted turning a boat with a pole, so 搬 fits the sense of shifting objects from one place to another by hand.
迁 — 辶 (walk) + 千 (qiān, phonetic)
迁 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the 辶 'walk/movement' radical gives the meaning of going or moving, while 千 supplies the sound qiān. The character originally meant to move from one place to another, and today it commonly means to relocate, transfer, or shift.