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動 kanji
move, motion, change, confusion, shift, shake
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ドウ
Kun readings
うごくうごかす
Words with 動
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —反動派the reactionaries
- —非活動inactive
- —不活動inaction; lethargy
- —不動心imperturbability; steadfastness; cool head in an emergency; keeping one's calm (e.g. during a fight)
- —流動性liquidity (esp. financial); fluidity; mobility (social, job, etc.)
- —力動的dynamic
- —地動説heliocentric theory; Copernican theory; heliocentrism; heliocentricism
- —受動態passive voice
- —流動食liquid food (diet)
- —運動靴sports shoes; sneakers
- —運動具sporting goods
- —運動界the world of sports
- —運動欄sports column; sports section
- —発動機engine
- —動力計dynamometer
- —動物性animal (in nature); animal (in origin)
- —動脈瘤aneurysm; aneurism
- —衝動的impulsive
- —米騒動rice riot (e.g. in 1890, 1897 and 1918); widespread rice shortage
- —水平動horizontal movement