迁就

qiān jiù · HSK 7

to adapt to

迁 = move/relocate + 就 = go toward — you move yourself toward them, i.e. accommodate

迁 means to shift or relocate; 就 means to come up to or settle into. Together: you do the moving to meet someone where they are, so you yield and adapt to accommodate them.

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.

就 — 京 (capital) + 尤 (especially)
Originally a compound suggesting going to a high place (京 depicts a tall building) to settle or accomplish something. Over time the meaning shifted from 'approach a high place' to 'go to,' then broadened to 'accomplish,' and finally to the modern grammatical senses 'then,' 'just,' or 'precisely.'

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