Chinese symbol for “easily”
动辄
dòng zhé
Traditional: 動輒
easily; readily; frequently; at every turn
The closest CC-CEDICT match for easily is 动辄 (dòng zhé), defined as: easily; readily; frequently; at every turn; at the slightest pretext.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 动辄.
| 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 |
| 浅尝辄止 (淺嘗輒止) | qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ | (lit.) to stop after taking just a sip (idiom); (fig.) to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop |
| 动辄得咎 (動輒得咎) | dòng zhé dé jiù | faulted at every turn (idiom); can't get anything right |
See also: Japanese symbol for “easily”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.