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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)
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On readings
ドウ
Kun readings
うごくうごかす
Words with 動
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —吸血動物bloodsucker
- —行動半径radius of action; combat radius; sphere of activity; range of activity
- —動物学者zoologist
- —動物検査animal quarantine
- —動態統計dynamic or vital or current statistics
- —動線計画circulation planning flow planning
- —住民運動neighborhood (protest) movement; neighbourhood (protest) movement
- —お家騒動family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period
- —咀嚼運動mastication
- —署名運動signature-collecting campaign
- —献血運動a blood drive
- —価格変動price fluctuations
- —物価変動price fluctuation
- —美化運動clean-up campaign; beautification drive
- —自動車税automobile tax; vehicle tax
- —自動制御automatic control
- —自動巻きself-winding watch
- —緊急動議urgent motion
- —啓蒙運動enlightenment movement; the Enlightenment
- —人口動態changes in demographics; movements in population characteristics