动 (動) dòng

1. dòng verb to move
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, the idiom 风吹草动 when the wind blows the grass moves (CC-CEDICT '動'; Guoyu '動' v 1; Kroll 2015 '動' 1, p. 90; NCCED '动' 1, p. 388; Unihan '動'; XHZD '动' 1, p. 155)
2. dòng verb to make happen; to change
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '動' 2, p. 90; NCCED '动' 2, p. 388; XHZD '动' 3, p. 156)
3. dòng verb to start
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 动工 start work (Guoyu '動' v 3; XHZD '动' 5, p. 156)
4. dòng verb to act
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (NCCED '动' 3, p. 388; XHZD '动' 1, p. 156)
5. dòng verb to touch; to prod; to stir; to stimulate
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, '惊心动魄 'to surprise the heart and move the soul' (CCI p. 38; CC-CEDICT '動'; Guoyu '動' v 4; Kroll 2015 '動' 1a, p. 90; NCCED '动' 5, p. 388; XHZD '动' 4, p. 156)
6. dòng adjective movable
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (NCCED '动' 8, p. 388; XHZD '动' 1, p. 155)
7. dòng verb to use
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 使用 (CC-CEDICT '動'; Guoyu '動' v 2; NCCED '动' 4, p. 388)
8. dòng adverb signalling a result
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '動' adv 2; XHZD '动' 7, p. 156)
9. dòng bound form movement
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '動' 1, p. 90; XHZD '动' 2, p. 156)
10. dòng adverb often
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 动 is synonymous with 常常 (Guoyu '動' adv 1; Kroll 2015 '動' 3, p. 90; NCCED '动' 7, p. 388; XHZD '动' 6, p. 156)
11. dòng verb to eat
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 吃 (CC-CEDICT '動'; Guoyu '動' v 5; NCCED '动' 6, p. 388)
12. dòng verb to revolt; to rebel
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '動' 4, p. 90)

Contained in

• 动物学家(動物學家) zoologist
• 踩动(踩動) to operate by means of a pedal
• 脉动(脈動) pulse; throbbing; pulsation
• 以利动(以利動) move only when there is an advantage
• 活动人士(活動人士) activist
• 不动点(不動點) fixed point (of a map) (math.)
• 跳动(跳動) to beat; to pulse
• 社会活动(社會活動) social activity
• 制动踏板(制動踏板) brake pedal
• 主动(主動) to take the initiative
• 流动人口(流動人口) transient population; floating population
• 动怒(動怒) to get angry
• 连缀动词(連綴動詞) linking verb
• 动物相(動物相) fauna
• 动物(動物) animal
• 动物实验(動物實驗) an animal experiment
• 环境行动主义(環境行動主義) environmentalism; environmental activism
• 移动电话(移動電話) cell phone; cellular phone; mobile phone
• 空气动力学(空氣動力學) aerodynamics
• 动心怵目(動心怵目) to feel so shaken that one is afraid to look
• 传动机构(傳動機構) transmission mechanism
• 万头钻动(萬頭鑽動) milling crowds
• 快速动眼期(快速動眼期) REM sleep
• 改革运动(改革運動) reform movement
• 食肉动物(食肉動物) a carnivore
• 悸动(悸動) to pound; to throb in fear
• 不信任动议(不信任動議) motion of no confidence (against the government, in parliamentary debates)
• 动工(動工) to start work ; to build; to do construction
• 飘动(飄動) to float; to drift
• 自动车(自動車) automobile
• 动物界(動物界) Animalia
• 动土(動土) to break ground (prior to building sth); to start building
• 行动计划(行動計劃) action plan
• 喷气发动机(噴氣發動機) jet engine
• 动物性饲料(動物性飼料) feed made of animal products
• 不动摇(不動搖) unmoved
• 浮动地狱(浮動地獄) floating hell; slave ships
• 草食性动物(草食性動物) herbivore
• 核动力(核動力) nuclear power
• 知识越多越反动(知識越多越反動) the more knowledgeable, the more reactionary
• 生产劳动(生產勞動) productive labor
• 一类保护动物(一類保護動物) class A protected animal
• 东突厥斯坦伊斯兰运动(東突厥斯坦伊斯蘭運動) East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
• 活动看板(活動看板) calendar of events
• 复兴运动(復興運動) renaissance; renaissance movement

Also contained in

动画 、 动名词 、 五卅运动 、 中国移动 、 人民行动党 、 轻动词

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷20　志第15 天文中 Volume 20 Treatises 15: Astronomy 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 40
• 《樂書》 Music Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 28
• 卷十五　兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 24
• 卷五十 志第三 天文三 Volume 50 Treatises 3: Astronomy 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 24
• 卷五十一 志第四 天文四 Volume 51 Treatises 4: Astronomy 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 24
• 《樂記》 Record of Music The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 22
• 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 22
• 卷五十五 Scroll 55 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 20
• 第一 律曆上 律準 候氣 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 18
• 卷十九 修文 Chapter 19: Cultivation and Education Garden of Stories 說苑 — count: 17

Collocations

• 动众 (動眾) 不可以起兵動眾 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 5
• 凡动 (凡動) 凡言凡動 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十二 貴義 Book 12 - Esteem for Righteousness — count: 4
• 动威 (動威) 今天動威 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 金縢 Zhou Shu - Metal-bound Coffer — count: 4
• 君子动 (君子動) 是故君子動則思禮 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
• 曰动 (曰動) 曰動悔 — Book of Changes 易經, 困 Kun — count: 3
• 情动 (情動) 情動於中而形於言 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 3
• 理动 (理動) 故其以理動者 — Guanzi 管子, 形勢解第六十四 Chapter 64: Resolving a Situation — count: 2
• 动悔 (動悔) 曰動悔 — Book of Changes 易經, 困 Kun — count: 2
• 未动 (未動) 上軍未動 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 2
• 物动 (物動) 毋先物動 — Guanzi 管子, 心術上第三十六 Chapter 36: Scheming I — count: 2