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
- —補動subsidiary verb (in Japanese); auxiliary verb
- —動学dynamics; mechanics; dynamics
- —欲動drive; urge; instinct
- —動感(feeling of) movement; liveliness; vividness (e.g. of a painting); life
- —動翼flight control surface; turbine blade
- —動確validation; operation check; checking operation; functionality testing
- —動索running rigging (of a sailing vessel)
- —力動vigorous movement; dynamism; psychodynamics
- —動燃Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (1967-1998; abbr); PNC
- —動労National Railway Motive Power Union (abbr)
- —被動passivity; (the) passive; passive voice; passivity; passiveness
- —易動度mobility
- —移動体moving body
- —運動員campaigner
- —運動費campaign fund
- —運動量momentum; amount of exercise
- —運動力impetus
- —円運動circular motion
- —可動堰canal gates; river gates
- —可動橋movable bridge