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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
HSK 2
to move / to exercise / sports / exercise / motion / movement / campaign / CL: 場|场
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
to spur; to provide impetus; to drive
HSK 3
movement / motion / development / trend / dynamic (science)
HSK 5
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个) / to act; to move
HSK 1
operation / action / CL: 個|个 / to move about / mobile
HSK 2
animated film
HSK 4
to sway / to waver / to rock / to rattle / to destabilize / to pose a challenge to
HSK 4
HSK 2
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
motive power / (fig.) motivation; impetus
HSK 3
to have an urge / to be impetuous / impulse / urge
HSK 5
to sway / to swing / to move back and forth / to oscillate
HSK 4
motive; motivation
HSK 5
to move / movement / migration / mobile / portable
HSK 4
to interact / interactive
HSK 6
to start (a machine) / (fig.) to set in motion / to launch (an operation) / to activate (a plan)
HSK 5
automatic / voluntarily
HSK 3
to turn sth around / to swivel
HSK 4
to move (sb) / to touch (sb emotionally) / moving
HSK 2
electric vehicle (commonly refers to e-bikes, scooters or electric cars)
HSK 4
to start out on a trip / to dispatch troops
HSK 6
to flow / to circulate / to go from place to place / to be mobile / (of assets) liquid
HSK 5
(of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
HSK 3
to move emotionally / to stir up (emotions) / to excite
HSK 4
to start / to launch / to unleash / to mobilize / to arouse
HSK 3
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
touching / moving
HSK 3
to transfer / to maneuver (troops etc) / movement of personnel / to mobilize / to bring into play
HSK 5
athlete / CL: , 個|个
HSK 4
to mobilize / mobilization / CL:
HSK 5
to move (to pity) / arousing (sympathy) / touching
HSK 6
sports competition / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
act / action / activity / move / movement
HSK 5
to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to
HSK 3
animation / cartoon
HSK 6
motionless
HSK 7-9
to rotate (about an axis) / to revolve / to turn / to move in a circle / to gyrate
HSK 6
to vibrate / to shake / vibration
HSK 5
to change / to fluctuate / change / fluctuation
HSK 5
artery
HSK 7-9
ByteDance, Beijing-based Internet technology company founded in 2012
to shake / to vibrate / to strongly affect / shock / vibration
HSK 7-9
work / toil / physical labor / CL:
HSK 5
(typically followed by ) apt to (lose one's temper, catch a cold etc) / at the drop of a hat
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to feel a rush of excitement
driving force
to undulate / to fluctuate / wave motion / rise and fall
HSK 6
worker; laborer
(idiom) every movement; each and every move
HSK 7-9
automatic control
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
the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science
to affect / to produce a change in sth
(detectable) movement; (sign of) activity / movement and stillness
HSK 7-9
real estate / immovable property / immovables
hermaphrodite creature
trend; tendency
HSK 7-9
to utilize / to put sth to use
HSK 7-9
physical labor
CD or DVD drive / abbr. to 光驅|光驱
unrest (social or political) / turmoil / upheaval / commotion
HSK 7-9
echinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc
to touch / to stir up (trouble or emotions) / to move (sb's emotions or worry)
HSK 7-9
transmission belt
to shift; to alter / unusual change; abnormal move
to mix; to stir
to start / to set in motion / to move / to march / to dig in (eating) / to tuck in (eating)
HSK 7-9
estrogen
charity event / public service activities
amphibian / amphibious animals
transient population / floating population
social activity
to start (a building project)
HSK 7-9
to go on a journey / to leave
HSK 7-9
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
(PRC) (D- or C-class) high-speed train / power car / multiple-unit train (abbr. for 動車組|动车组)
bank autoteller / ATM
(idiom) world-shaking
HSK 7-9
sports; athletic activities
to budge
HSK 7-9
motionless
animation effect
cartoons and comics / anime and manga / cartoon (animated movie) / anime
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
reeducation through labor
momentum
working people / the workers of Socialist theory or of the glorious Chinese past
to shift sth with a crowbar etc / (fig.) to influence by applying leverage
plants and animals / flora and fauna
motor vehicle
HSK 6
mammal
class A protected animal
ability to work
labor force / manpower
HSK 7-9
one able to do light manual labor only / semi-able-bodied or part time (farm) worker
coronary artery
Rodong Sinmun (Workers' news), the official newspaper of the North Korean WPK's Central Committee

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