游移

Chinese

		to walk; to tour; to roam to walk; to tour; to roam; to swim; to travel	to move; to shift; to change to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove
trad. (游移)		游	移
simp. #(游移)		游	移

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yóuyí

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˊ ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴ ji⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yóuyí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yóuyí
    • Wade–Giles: yu²-i²
    • Yale: yóu-yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: youyi
    • Palladius: юи (jui)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯³⁵ i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁴ ji⁴
    • Yale: yàuh yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴ ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴ yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹ jiː²¹/

Verb

游移

1. (intransitive) to waver; to vacillate

   • 中農呢？他們的態度是游移的。 [MSC, trad.]
     中农呢？他们的态度是游移的。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zhōngnóng ne? Tāmen de tàidù shì yóuyí de. [Pinyin]

     How about the middle peasants? Theirs is a vacillating attitude.

2. (transitive) to alter; to change

Synonyms

• (to waver):

• 反顧／反顾 (fǎngù) (literary)
• 彳亍 (chìchù) (literary, figurative)
• 彷徨 (pánghuáng) (figurative)
• 徘徊 (figurative)
• 拿不定主意 (nábùdìng zhǔyì)
• 猶疑／犹疑 (yóuyí)
• 猶豫／犹豫 (yóuyù)
• 疑蟯／疑蛲 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 盤桓／盘桓 (pánhuán) (figurative)
• 膩／腻 (nyi⁴) (Sichuanese)
• 躊躇／踌躇 (chóuchú)
• 巡巡 (xúnxún) (literary)
• 逡巡 (qūnxún) (literary)
• 遲疑／迟疑 (chíyí)

 

• (to alter):

• 修改 (xiūgǎi)
• 切換／切换 (qiēhuàn)
• 改動／改动 (gǎidòng)
• 改換／改换 (gǎihuàn)
• 改觀／改观 (gǎiguān) (to change appearance, to change one's view)
• 改變／改变 (gǎibiàn)
• 改造 (gǎizào)
• 更動／更动 (gēngdòng)
• 更換／更换 (gēnghuàn)
• 更改 (gēnggǎi)
• 移 (yí)
• 移易 (yíyì) (literary)
• 竄／窜 (cuàn) (literary, or in compounds, to revise text)
• 竄亂／窜乱 (cuànluàn) (literary)
• 變／变 (biàn)
• 變換／变换 (biànhuàn)
• 變易／变易 (biànyì)
• 變更／变更 (biàngēng)
• 變變／变变 (Hokkien)
• 變革／变革 (biàngé) (chiefly social systems)
• 轉化／转化 (zhuǎnhuà)
• 轉換／转换 (zhuǎnhuàn)
• 轉變／转变 (zhuǎnbiàn)
• 遷／迁 (qiān)
• 革變／革变 (gébiàn) (literary)

 

Derived terms

• 游移不定 (yóuyíbùdìng)
• 游移不決／游移不决