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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
- —変動費用variable cost
- —動物細胞animal cell; zooblast
- —薬物動態pharmacokinetics
- —袋形動物aschelminth (any invertebrate animal formerly classified as belonging to phylum Aschelminthes)
- —刺胞動物cnidarian (aquatic invertebrate of the phylum Cnidaria)
- —有櫛動物ctenophore (aquatic invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora)
- —瞬間移動teleportation
- —側生動物parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)
- —後生動物metazoan (any member of the animal kingdom, excluding protozoans and sponges)
- —受動免疫passive immunity
- —初動捜査initial investigation (by police)
- —歳差運動(motion of) precession of the equinoxes; precession
- —波動関数wave function
- —気候変動climate change
- —緩歩動物tardigrade (any animal of phylum Tardigrada); water bear
- —自動車道expressway; motorway
- —雑食動物omnivore; omnivorous animal
- —制動輻射bremsstrahlung; X-rays produced when fast electrons pass through matter
- —紐形動物nemertean (any worm of phylum Nemertea)
- —輪形動物rotifer