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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
- —行動に移るto take action; to start; to get started; to begin to do
- —動粘性係数coefficient of kinematic viscosity; dynamic coefficient of viscosity; kinematic viscosity
- —精子運動率sperm motility (ratio)
- —行動をとるto act; to take action
- —精神運動性psychomobility
- —縄張り行動territorial behavior; territorial behaviour
- —航空発動機aircraft engine
- —団体行動権right to organize and bargain collectively (organise)
- —自動運転車self-driving car; autonomous car
- —近日点移動perihelion shift; advance of the perihelion
- —お不動さんAcala (Wisdom King); Acalanatha; Fudō; fierce Buddhist deity
- —不動の動者unmoved mover; prime mover
- —動物検疫所animal quarantine station
- —新文化運動New Culture Movement (revolutionary movement in China, 1917-1921)
- —雇用流動化employment mobility; fluidity of employment
- —動物考古学archaeozoology; archeozoology; zooarchaeology
- —消防自動車fire engine; fire truck
- —緊急自動車emergency vehicle
- —救急自動車ambulance
- —霊柩自動車hearse