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  *动* | 动* | *动
(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
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  *去* | 去* | *去
to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
HSK 1
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  *别* | 别* | *别
to leave; to part (from) / (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish / (dialect) to turn away; to turn aside; to avert (one's face, gaze etc) / (bound form) other; another; different / don't ...! / to fasten with a pin or clip / to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement) / (noun suffix) category (as in 性別|性别, 派別|派别)
HSK 1
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个) / to act; to move
HSK 1
to move / to exercise / sports / exercise / motion / movement / campaign / CL: 場|场
HSK 2
to move / movement / migration / mobile / portable
HSK 4
the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
HSK 4
movement / motion / development / trend / dynamic (science)
HSK 5
to transfer / to maneuver (troops etc) / movement of personnel / to mobilize / to bring into play
HSK 5
act / action / activity / move / movement
HSK 5
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  *章* | 章* | *章
chapter / section / clause / movement (of symphony) / seal / badge / regulation / order
HSK 6
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  *串* | 串* | *串
to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across
HSK 6
sense of movement (often in a static work of art) / dynamic / vivid / lifelike
HSK 7-9
hand and foot / movement of limbs / action / trick / step in a procedure (CL:)
HSK 7-9
cradle (for a baby) / (fig.) cradle; birthplace (of a civilization, movement etc)
HSK 7-9
(detectable) movement; (sign of) activity / movement and stillness
HSK 7-9
move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts) / gambit / trick / scheme / movement / same as 著數|着数
HSK 7-9
Wang Dan (1969-), Chinese dissident, one of the leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989
to slide / sliding movement
(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after ) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. ) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3lai5]
hurricane / violent reform or revolution / violent movement or force
movement (of a symphony)
qigong, a traditional Chinese system of cultivating vital energy 氣|气 through coordinated breathing, movement and meditation
to wiggle / to squirm / peristalsis (wave movement of gut wall)
to drive a vehicle / movement of vehicles
dancer's posture and movement
the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66) / abbr. for 四清運動|四清运动
stratagem; method; approach / (martial arts) movement / social connections / (sb's) background story
fetal movement
fourth of May, cf 五四運動|五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
slow in one's reactions / sluggish (in movement or thought)
one's every movement (idiom) / comportment / gestures
Tibetan Independence (movement) / abbr. for 西藏獨立運動|西藏独立运动
sudden movement of a corpse (superstition) / fig. sudden torrent of abuse
civil transport / movement aimed at the masses / democracy movement (abbr.)
(cinematography) camera movement (tracking, panning, zooming etc); to execute a camera movement
student movement
Spring Willow Society, pioneering Chinese theatrical company set up in Tokyo in 1906, part of New Culture Movement 新文化運動|新文化运动, continued in China from 1912 as 新劇同志會|新剧同志会
sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
(idiom) every movement; each and every move
place of origin / source (of a war or a social movement)
Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
with a rolling or twisting movement / in a single movement; in one breath
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  *噞* | 噞* | *噞
the movement of a fish's mouth at the surface of the water
Shia (a movement in Islam)
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  *楗* | 楗* | *楗
material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike / (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt)
abbr. for 五卅運動|五卅运动, The May Thirtieth Movement (1925)
late-Qing underground resistance movement against the Qing dynasty
Örkesh Dölet (1968-), one of the main leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989
Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
to forbid sb to go out / to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc) / to ground (as disciplinary measure) / to gate / to curfew / restriction on movement / ban on visiting a place / out of bounds / off limits / caveat
Fushe, late Ming political and cultural movement led by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥 and others, advocating the revival of ancient studies
circular finger movement (in playing plucked instrument) / strumming
water sports / aquatic motion / movement over water
River Elegy, influential 1988 CCTV documentary series, said to have stimulated the Beijing Spring democracy movement of 1980s
to entangle / to hinder / to impede movement
Lin Xu (1875-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动
the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science
peasant movement (abbr. for 農民運動|农民运动)
Yang Rui (1855-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 / Yang Rui (1963-), host of "Dialogue" on CCTV News
Ming dynasty scholar (1602-1641), prolific writer, proponent of the Fushe 復社|复社 cultural renewal movement, author of Five Men's Tombstone Inscription 五人墓碑記|五人墓碑记
Falun Gong (Chinese spiritual movement founded in 1992, regarded as a cult by the PRC government)
"Mr Democracy", phrase used during the May 4th Movement 五四運動|五四运动 / abbr. for 德謨克拉西|德谟克拉西 / see also 賽先生|赛先生
lower half of one's body / Lower Body (Chinese poetry movement of the early 21st century)
the eight giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動|古文运动, namely: Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈, Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元, Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修, the three Su's 三蘇|三苏, Wang Anshi 王安石, Zeng Gong 曾鞏|曾巩
Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
not a word or movement (idiom); remaining calm and collected / not batting an eyelid
Futurism (artistic and social movement of the 20th century)
Taiwan political movement aimed at forcing the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁|陈水扁 in 2006 over corruption allegations
Yongzhen Reform, Tang dynasty failed reform movement of 805 led by Wang Shuwen 王叔文
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
anti-imperialist movement of 30th May 1925, involving general strike esp. in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong etc
eye movement
Su Manshu (1884-1918), Chinese writer, journalist, Buddhist monk, participant in the revolutionary movement
to do with the masses / mass (meeting, movement etc)
(geotectonics) crustal movement; diastrophism
Futurism (artistic and social movement of the 20th century)
Black Lives Matter (social movement)
Enclosure Movement
the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同|谭嗣同, Lin Xu 林旭, Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀|杨深秀, Liu Guangdi 劉光第|刘光第, Kang Guangren 康廣仁|康广仁 and Yang Rui 楊銳|杨锐
cultural movement aspiring to study and emulate classic works, at different periods of history, esp. Tang and Song
Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 洋務運動|洋务运动
against the bristles (brush movement in painting)
(Internet slang) (loanword) #MeToo (movement against sexual harassment and assault)
political movement
New Age (movement)
"land to the tiller", post-Liberation land reform movement instigated by the CCP
Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844), founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
Yang Shenxiu (1849-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
abbr. for 三自愛國教會|三自爱国教会, Three-Self Patriotic Movement
the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66), which aimed to cleanse the politics, economy, organization and ideology of the Communist Party
Misty Poetry, a post-Cultural Revolution poetry movement
tectonic movement / movement of earth's crust
liberation movement
Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949
Occupy Central, Hong Kong civil disobedience movement (September 2014 -)
(onom.) sound of quick movement / Taiwan pr. [ci4leng2]
women's movement / feminism

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