The invention discloses an arm type armchair. The arm type armchair is a transferring chair. The arm type armchair is mainly composed of a chair body portion and an arm portion. The chair body portion is composed of a pedal lever, pushing hands, a lifting column, a foot frame, a horizontal block, chair cushions, baffle railings, a front frame and a rear frame. A backrest and a footrest are symmetrically hinged to the two ends of a seat frame. The arm portion is composed of a horizontal slide way, a supporting plate, a lifting device and a pushing device, and the arm portion is installed on the rear frame. The lifting device is composed of a vertical slide rack, a vertical slide block, a horizontal slide way, a motor, a screw rod, a nut support and a support. The pushing device is composed of a horizontal slide way, a clamping plate, a supporting plate, pulling cloth, an upper drum, a lower drum, a guiding cylinder, a reel, a guiding wheel, a pull rope and a motor. The chair cushions are installed on the two sides of the horizontal slide way. In the process of transferring a patient, the upper drum, the lower drum and the reel cooperate with one another, and when the supporting plate is inserted under a human body, the pulling cloth under the supporting plate can bypass the front end of the supporting plate synchronously to be paved on the supporting plate. When the pulling cloth on and under the supporting plate are pulled synchronously, the supporting plate is withdrawn, and no friction is generated on the human body. The human body can be transferred between the armchair and a bed.