Chinese symbol for “shrug”
耸动
sǒng dòng
Traditional: 聳動
to shake (a part of one's body); to shrug (shoulders); to create a sensation; to incite
The closest CC-CEDICT match for shrug is 耸动 (sǒng dòng), defined as: to shake (a part of one's body); to shrug (shoulders); to create a sensation; to incite.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “shrug”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 耸 (聳) | sǒng | to excite; to raise up |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 耸动.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 高耸 (高聳) | gāo sǒng | erect; towering |
| 危言耸听 (危言聳聽) | wēi yán sǒng tīng | frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk; reds under the beds |
| 耸人听闻 (聳人聽聞) | sǒng rén tīng wén | to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people |
| 耸立 (聳立) | sǒng lì | to stand tall; to tower aloft |
| 耸肩 (聳肩) | sǒng jiān | to shrug one's shoulders |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “shrug”.
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.