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  *動* | 動* | *動
(of sth) to move / to set in movement / to displace / to touch / to make use of / to stir (emotions) / to alter / abbr. for 動詞|动词, verb
HSK 1
motive power / (fig.) motivation; impetus
HSK 3
touching / moving
HSK 3
HSK 2
to move / to exercise / sports / exercise / motion / movement / campaign / CL: 場|场
HSK 2
athlete / CL: , 個|个
HSK 4
HSK 2
work / toil / physical labor / CL:
HSK 5
movement / motion / development / trend / dynamic (science)
HSK 5
animation / cartoon
HSK 6
automatic / voluntarily
HSK 3
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个) / to act; to move
HSK 1
animated film
HSK 4
to mobilize / mobilization / CL:
HSK 5
to set about (a task) / to raise a hand to hit sb / to touch; to handle (typically used in cautioning sb *not* to touch sth)
HSK 5
to exercise; to move about; to work out / shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) / movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc) / (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity / (outdoor etc) activity; event; (political) campaign; (military) maneuver (CL:項|项) / to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc
HSK 2
(of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
HSK 3
to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to
HSK 3
to move / movement / migration / mobile / portable
HSK 4
sports competition / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to move (sb) / to touch (sb emotionally) / moving
HSK 2
to sway / to waver / to rock / to rattle / to destabilize / to pose a challenge to
HSK 4
to start / to launch / to unleash / to mobilize / to arouse
HSK 3
to start (a machine) / (fig.) to set in motion / to launch (an operation) / to activate (a plan)
HSK 5
operation / action / CL: 個|个 / to move about / mobile
HSK 2
to take the initiative / to do sth of one's own accord / spontaneous / active / opposite: passive 被動|被动 / drive (of gears and shafts etc)
HSK 3
labor force / manpower
HSK 7-9
to interact / interactive
HSK 6
to sway / to swing / to move back and forth / to oscillate
HSK 4
(idiom) world-shaking
HSK 7-9
to vibrate / to shake / vibration
HSK 5
to move emotionally / to stir up (emotions) / to excite
HSK 4
to urge (an activity that may be beneficial, harmful or neutral); to encourage; to agitate; to instigate; to incite / to beat; to flap (wings, a fan etc)
HSK 7-9
to spur; to provide impetus; to drive
HSK 3
to turn sth around / to swivel
HSK 4
to move (to pity) / arousing (sympathy) / touching
HSK 6
(typically followed by ) apt to (lose one's temper, catch a cold etc) / at the drop of a hat
HSK 7-9
to change / to fluctuate / change / fluctuation
HSK 5
electric vehicle (commonly refers to e-bikes, scooters or electric cars)
HSK 4
passive
HSK 5
to utilize / to put sth to use
HSK 7-9
cardiogram (medicine)
to have an urge / to be impetuous / impulse / urge
HSK 5
to start out on a trip / to dispatch troops
HSK 6
(idiom) every movement; each and every move
HSK 7-9
to transfer / to maneuver (troops etc) / movement of personnel / to mobilize / to bring into play
HSK 5
transient population / floating population
trend; tendency
HSK 7-9
sense of movement (often in a static work of art) / dynamic / vivid / lifelike
HSK 7-9
to get angry
to undulate / to fluctuate / wave motion / rise and fall
HSK 6
aloof / indifferent / unconcerned
motive; motivation
HSK 5
disk drive
to do (sth) oneself / to help oneself to
eumetazoa / subkingdom of animals excluding sponges
to respond instantly / to act at once on hearing the news
artery
HSK 7-9
to flow / to circulate / to go from place to place / to be mobile / (of assets) liquid
HSK 5
calendar of events
electric-powered / (Tw) video game
HSK 6
earthquake (old term)
Olympic Games; the Olympics
sports / sporting activity
to rotate (about an axis) / to revolve / to turn / to move in a circle / to gyrate
HSK 6
plants and animals / flora and fauna
act / action / activity / move / movement
HSK 5
(detectable) movement; (sign of) activity / movement and stillness
HSK 7-9
charity event / public service activities
to link / to peg (currency) / gang (gears) / continuously / serial verb construction
to motivate
pleasant to listen to
HSK 7-9
coronary artery
to touch / to stir up (trouble or emotions) / to move (sb's emotions or worry)
HSK 7-9
hermaphrodite creature
manual / manually operated / manual gear-change
HSK 7-9
turmoil / upheaval / unrest
to roll / (to do sth) in a loop / to scroll (computing) / to progressively expand (economics) / to rumble (of thunder)
HSK 7-9
mobile telephone
real estate / immovable property / immovables
initiative (as in "seize the initiative") / advantageous position that allows one to call the shots
(idiom) to feel a rush of excitement
vending machine
verb
engine; motor / CL: 臺|台
to go on a journey / to leave
HSK 7-9
to start (a building project)
HSK 7-9
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
unrest (social or political) / turmoil / upheaval / commotion
HSK 7-9
cartoons and comics / anime and manga / cartoon (animated movie) / anime
to get serious about sth / to pull no punches / to be determined to see sth through
to incite
(computing) dynamic image
Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾|乔治·奥威尔 / also translated 動物農場|动物农场
to use one's brain
working people / the workers of Socialist theory or of the glorious Chinese past
worker; laborer
labor contract / contract between employer and employees governing wages and conditions
to shake; to sway; to rock
activity center / CL: 處|处

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