运行(yùn xíng) - to run, to operate, to be in motion in Mandarin

运行 (yùn xíng) is what machines, systems, software, trains and planets do. It describes something moving steadily along the course it was set on, and it is the standard verb on a status readout: 运行正常, 运行中, 停止运行.

It is mostly intransitive, with the thing doing the running as the subject: 程序在运行, 地铁正常运行. When you want to say that a person starts a program, the verb is 运行 used transitively in computing contexts, 运行这个程序, but 打开 is far commoner in speech.

Two traps. It is never used of a person running, which is 跑. And it is not the running of a business or a shop, which is 经营 or 管理. A restaurant that has been going for ten years 开了十年, it does not 运行.