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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
- —起居挙動behavior; bearing; deportment; manners; demeanor
- —挙措言動speech and behavior; words and deeds
- —挙動不審suspicious behavior; acting suspiciously
- —行動原理behavioral principle; principle (value) governing one's conduct
- —相場動向market trend; stock movements
- —天地鳴動rumbling and shaking of the earth
- —動向把握grasping the trend; firmly understanding how the situation is developing; getting a good sense of how things are changing
- —一坪運動campaign to prevent a public construction work by acquiring a minuscule tract of land
- —撲滅運動exterminatory measure; eradication campaign
- —啓蒙活動information campaign; awareness program
- —運動皮質motor cortex (area of the brain just anterior to the central sulcus responsible for controlling voluntary muscle activity)
- —肉食動物carnivore
- —朝鮮動乱Korean War (1950-1953)
- —行動様式behavioral pattern
- —相対運動relative motion
- —絶対運動absolute (as opposed to relative) motion
- —動体視力dynamic visual acuity; DVA; kinetic vision
- —雲煙飛動flying clouds and drifting haze; magnificent calligraphy; vivid penmanship
- —動眼神経oculomotor nerve
- —異常行動abnormal behavior (behaviour)