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Chinese symbol for “motionless”

一动不动
yī dòng bù dòng
Traditional: 一動不動
motionless

The closest CC-CEDICT match for motionless is 一动不动 (yī dòng bù dòng), defined as: motionless.

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Characters and stroke order

一 yī
one; a, an; alone
radical 1 ⼀ · 1 strokes
动 dòng
to move, to happen; movement, action
radical 19 ⼒ · 6 strokes
不 bù
no, not, un-; negative prefix
radical 1 ⼀ · 4 strokes
动
动 dòng
to move, to happen; movement, action
radical 19 ⼒ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “motionless”

WordPinyinMeaning
不动 (不動)bù dòngmotionless
僵住jiāng zhùmotionless; unable to move

Related words

Other words that share a character with 一动不动.

WordPinyinMeaning
一个 (一個)yī gea; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
一些yī xiēsome; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
一样 (一樣)yī yàngsame; like
一定yī dìngsurely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled
一起yī qǐ(in) the same place; together; in company (with)
一直yī zhístraight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
活动 (活動)huó dòngto exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
运动 (運動)yùn dòngto move; to exercise
不是bù shìno; is not
行动 (行動)xíng dòngoperation; action

See also: Japanese symbol for “motionless”.

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.