徙

xǐ
#3,405 most
frequent character
(literary) to change one's residence

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

徙 joins 辵, a walking part, with 止, which was once 少, the sound part. Together they first meant a group moving to more fertile land. That grew to moving house.

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