{"path":"/entry/31545","title":"安土重迁 / 安土重遷 (ān tǔ zhòng qiān) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"安土重迁 / 安土重遷 (ān tǔ zhòng qiān): to hate to leave a place where one has lived long. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":31545,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["安土重迁"],"TRADITIONAL":["安土重遷"]}},"phonetic":"ān tǔ zhòng qiān","phoneticKey":"an1 tu3 zhong4 qian1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to hate to leave a place where one has lived long","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to be attached to one's native land and unwilling to leave it","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From The Book of Han","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"安土重迁，黎民之性；骨肉相附，人情所愿也。","traditional":"安土重遷，黎民之性；骨肉相附，人情所願也。"},"phonetic":"Ān tǔ zhòng qiān, límín zhī xìng; gǔròu xiàng fù, rénqíng suǒ yuàn yě.","english":"It is the nature of the common people to be contented with their locality and to consider transportation to a different location as a serious matter, and it is what human affections long for to have one's flesh and blood [i.e. family members] attached to oneself.","ref":"The Book of Han, circa 1ˢᵗ century CE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}