动 (動) dòng
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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) -
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) -
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) -
dòng
verb
to act
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '动' 3, p. 388; XHZD '动' 1, p. 156) -
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) -
dòng
adjective
movable
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '动' 8, p. 388; XHZD '动' 1, p. 155) -
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) -
dòng
adverb
signalling a result
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '動' adv 2; XHZD '动' 7, p. 156) -
dòng
bound form
movement
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '動' 1, p. 90; XHZD '动' 2, p. 156) -
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) -
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) -
dòng
verb
to revolt; to rebel
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '動' 4, p. 90)
Contained in
- 非利不动(非利不動) do not move unless it is to your advantage
- 轰动效应(轟動效應) sensational effect; wild reaction
- 诱动(誘動) to tempt; to seduce
- 运动家(運動家) athlete; sportsman; activist
- 警匪动作电影(警匪動作電影) cops and robbers action movie
- 心动(心動) heartbeat; heart rate; (fig.) emotionally affected; aroused (of desire, emotion, interest etc)
- 机动(機動) motorized ; adaptable; flexible
- 轰动(轟動) to cause a commotion
- 对抗煸动(對抗煸動) anti-inflammatory
- 移动式电话(移動式電話) mobile telephone
- 野生动植物园(野生動植物園) wildlife park; safari park
- 节足动物(節足動物) arthropod
- 冰上运动(冰上運動) ice-sports
- 传动(傳動) drive (transmission in an engine)
- 元胞自动机(元胞自動機) cellular automaton
- 动植物(動植物) plants and animals; flora and fauna
- 手动挡(手動擋) manual gear change; shift stick
- 注意力不足过动症(注意力不足過動症) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- 冠状动脉(冠狀動脈) coronary artery
- 同类相动(同類相動) like kinds attract each other
- 哺乳动物(哺乳動物) a mammal
- 电动机(電動機) an electric motor
- 老子英雄儿好汉,老子反动儿混蛋(老子英雄兒好漢,老子反動兒混蛋) If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard. (Cultural Revolution slogan)
- 动态雕塑(動態雕塑) (fine arts) a mobile
- 发动力(發動力) motive power
- 长跑运动员(長跑運動員) long distance runner
- 扇动(扇動) to fan; to flap; to incite; to instigate (a strike etc)
- 运动战(運動戰) mobile warfare
- 启动子(啟動子) promoter
- 被动(被動) passive ; passive
- 动机(動機) motive; motivation; intention
- 小动作(小動作) bad habit (e.g. nose-picking); petty maneuver; dirty trick; gamesmanship
- 见诸行动(見諸行動) to translate something into action; to put something into action
- 启动(啟動) to start
- 风吹草动(風吹草動) when the wind blows the grass moves
- 流体动力学(流體動力學) fluid dynamics
- 惊天动地(驚天動地) alarming heaven and shaking the earth; world shaking
- 萌动(萌動) to sprout; (fig.) to emerge
- 朝劳动党(朝勞動黨) Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea
- 流动率(流動率) turnover (of staff)
- 机动车辆(機動車輛) motor vehicle
- 冠状动脉旁通手术(冠狀動脈旁通手術) coronary bypass operation
- 撼动(撼動) to shake up; to deal a shock; to stir
- 搏动(搏動) to beat rhythmically; to throb; to pulsate
- 动嘴皮(動嘴皮) to move one's lips; to wag one's tongue
- 动力(動力) power; propulsion ; motivation
- 重新启动(重新啟動) to reboot; to restart
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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
- 卷五十一 志第四 天文四 Volume 51 Treatises 4: Astronomy 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 24
- 卷五十 志第三 天文三 Volume 50 Treatises 3: Astronomy 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 24
- 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 22
- 《樂記》 Record of Music The Book of Rites 禮記 — 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
- 动威 (動威) 今天動威 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 金縢 Zhou Shu - Metal-bound Coffer — count: 4
- 凡动 (凡動) 凡言凡動 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十二 貴義 Book 12 - Esteem for Righteousness — count: 4
- 情动 (情動) 情動於中而形於言 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 3
- 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
- 动天下 (動天下) 是動天下之兵也 — Mencius 孟子, 梁惠王下 King Hui of Liang II — count: 2
- 顺动 (順動) 天地以順動 — Book of Changes 易經, 豫 Yu — count: 2
- 辉动 (輝動) 故德輝動於內 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《樂記》 Record of Music — count: 2
- 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