Kanji1 / 11
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)
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On readings
ドウ
Kun readings
うごくうごかす
Words with 動
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —行動方針course of action
- —行動命令operation order
- —使役動詞causative verb
- —市民運動citizens' campaign; citizens' group
- —自動車化motorization
- —自動小銃automatic rifle
- —自動着信auto answer (e.g. modem)
- —受動喫煙passive smoking; second-hand smoking
- —就職運動job hunting; job searching
- —出動命令marching orders; sailing orders
- —女権運動women's rights movement
- —衝動行為shock action
- —衝動買いimpulse buying; impulse purchase
- —信徒伝動lay evangelism
- —制動放射bremsstrahlung; X-rays produced when fast electrons pass through matter
- —性的衝動sexual urge; sexual drive; libido
- —脊椎動物vertebrate; vertebrates; vertebrata
- —前進運動forward motion
- —単独行動independent action; acting alone
- —団体行動acting as a group; doing something together (in a group); collective action