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
- —不動産業real estate business
- —動物虐待animal abuse; animal cruelty; cruelty to animals; cruelty toward animals
- —動物社会animal society
- —示導動機leitmotif; leitmotiv; leading motive
- —企業活動corporate activities; business operations
- —心房細動atrial fibrillation
- —零点振動zero-point vibration; zero-point motion
- —運動競技athletic sports
- —自由行動free action; free activity; acting at one's own discretion; taking one's own course; free hand; independent action
- —反動分子reactionary elements
- —腋窩動脈axillary artery; arteria axillaris
- —上腕動脈brachial artery; arteria brachialis
- —辻自動車taxicab
- —初動対応initial response
- —初動対処initial response
- —言語行動verbal behaviour; language behaviour
- —言語活動linguistic activity; language (as defined by Saussure; langue and parole)
- —勤労動員mobilization of labor services (e.g. in wartime)
- —動力故障power failure
- —動物好きlove of animals; animal lover