动 — Chinese character
动
dòng
to move, to happen; movement, action
- Pinyin
- dòng
- Radical
- 19 ⼒ (Power)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 云 力
- Formation
- pictophonetic — strength; meaning component 力
- Traditional
- 動
Common words with 动
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 运动 (運動) | yùn dòng | to move; to exercise |
| 行动 (行動) | xíng dòng | operation; action |
| 动物 (動物) | dòng wù | animal |
| 推动 (推動) | tuī dòng | to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to |
| 劳动 (勞動) | láo dòng | work; toil |
| 移动 (移動) | yí dòng | to move; movement |
| 自动 (自動) | zì dòng | automatic; voluntarily |
| 发动 (發動) | fā dòng | to start; to launch |
| 动作 (動作) | dòng zuò | movement; motion; action; to act; to move |
| 主动 (主動) | zhǔ dòng | to take the initiative; to do sth of one's own accord |
| 动力 (動力) | dòng lì | motive power; (fig.) motivation; impetus |
English words written with 动
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.