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
- —振動止めvibration dampener (for tennis racket strings)
- —国民運動popular movement; citizens' campaign; national movement
- —動物地理zoogeography
- —迷惑動画prank video
- —太陽活動solar activity
- —意志動詞volitional verb
- —確率変動system by which hitting a certain jackpot increases the probability of hitting the next jackpot (on prepaid card pachinko machines)
- —高機動車highly maneuverable vehicle; high mobility vehicle; HMV
- —活動休止hiatus (from work; esp. in a creative field)
- —側方流動lateral flow
- —消費行動consumer behavior; consumption patterns
- —電動工具power tool; electric tool
- —移動交番mobile police box; moving police box
- —古動物学paleozoology
- —作動装置actuator
- —自動二輪motorcycle (with a displacement of 50cc or more); motorbike
- —日周運動diurnal motion
- —心尖拍動apex beat; apex pulse; point of maximum impulse
- —移動撮影moving shot; travel shot; follow shot; action shot
- —内燃動車railmotor; rail motor; railcar with internal combustion engine