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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
- —使役動物working animal; draught animal; draft animal
- —動吻動物Kinorhyncha (phylum of marine invertebrates)
- —流動比率current ratio; liquidity ratio
- —連動装置interlock; interlocking device
- —動的平衡dynamic equilibrium
- —運動施設sports facility
- —活動量計activity tracker; fitness tracker
- —動物解放animal liberation
- —路上活動on-street activities (performing, collecting, etc.)
- —群生動物social animal; group animal
- —移動販売mobile sales (e.g. food trucks); mobile catering; route sales
- —西漸運動Westward movement (westward expansion of United States territory)
- —角振動数angular frequency
- —落選運動campaign (by voters) to prevent the election of a candidate
- —投票行動voting behaviour (behavior)
- —地質活動tectonic activity
- —欠如動詞defective verb
- —自動水栓automatic faucet; hands-free tap
- —逆行運動retrograde motion; apparent retrograde motion; retrogradation
- —順行運動direct motion; prograde motion