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)
On readings
ドウ
Kun readings
うごくうごかす
Words with 動
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —念動telekinesis; psychokinesis
- —漂動drift (e.g. in frequency)
- —細動fibrillation
- —情動emotion; affect
- —形動adjectival noun (in Japanese); quasi-adjective; nominal adjective; na-, taru-, nari- or tari-adjective
- —体動body motion
- —陽動diversion; distraction; feint
- —回動moving rotationally; revolving
- —泳動migration; movement; phoresis
- —摺動sliding or moving along a smooth surface with continuous contact on that surface
- —動径radius vector
- —多動hyperactivity (of a child)
- —実動operating (e.g. of trains, cars); running; working
- —傾動tilting (of a geological block)
- —初動initial response (e.g. to a crisis); action in the earliest stages; initial shock (of an earthquake); preliminary tremor
- —助動inflecting dependent word
- —章動nutation
- —動圧dynamic pressure
- —萌動sprouting; budding
- —地動(internal) movement of the earth; earthquake; motions of the earth (i.e. rotation and revolution)