(dòng) - to move; movement in Mandarin
dòngTraditional: 動
Translation
to move; movement
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound whose force radical marks effort and whose phonetic gives the sound. It means to move.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 云 (yún, phonetic) + 力 (force)
Stroke order
动
Examples
！
Do not move!
。
He moved his fingers a little.
台。
This machine still works.
风，树叶。
When the wind blew, the leaves moved.
。
We should set off now.
动 (dòng) means to move, and movement. It anchors many compounds such as 运动 sport and 动作 action.
Where this fits
Appears in 10 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 动.
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