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
- —直接行動direct action
- —直立不動standing at attention; standing stiffly upright
- —定形動詞finite verb
- —動作記録audit trail; history
- —動物崇拝zoolatry
- —動物油脂animal fat
- —動力降下power dive
- —動力資源energy resource; source of energy
- —独立運動independence movement; mutually independent
- —二足動物biped
- —能動免疫active immunity
- —排斥運動expulsion movement; boycott
- —半流動体semiliquid
- —反射運動reflex action
- —反動革命counterrevolution
- —反動思想reactionary ideas
- —反動主義reactionism
- —不動明王Acala (Wisdom King); Acalanatha; Fudō Myōō (Myō-ō); fierce Buddhist deity
- —平行移動translation; shift; parallel displacement
- —補助動詞subsidiary verb (in Japanese); auxiliary verb