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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
- —強権発動invoking the coercive power of the state; calling upon the power of the state
- —運動失調ataxia; loss of coordination of the muscles; failure of muscular coordination
- —人種暴動race riot; ethnic riot
- —暴動鎮圧riot control
- —医動物学medical zoology; zoonotic medicine
- —救助活動rescue operation; aid operation; rescue work
- —構造運動tectonic movement
- —動物病院veterinary clinic; veterinary hospital
- —公転運動orbital motion
- —動機づけmotivation
- —恋愛活動looking for love; searching for a lover
- —行動特性behavioral characteristic; behavioral trait
- —財政出動fiscal stimulus; increasing public spending
- —自動更新automatic update; automatic renewal
- —腐生動物saprozoa
- —腐食動物saprovore; saprozoic organism; saprophagous animal; scavenger
- —動態保存preservation of obsolete machinery in a functional condition (e.g. train engines)
- —地下活動underground activity; underground activities; underground movement
- —文学運動literary movement
- —五四運動May Fourth Movement (anti-imperialist student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919)