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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
to move / to exercise / sports / exercise / motion / movement / campaign / CL: 場|场
HSK 2
work / toil / physical labor / CL:
HSK 5
automatic / voluntarily
HSK 3
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
to move (sb) / to touch (sb emotionally) / moving
HSK 2
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
to interact / interactive
HSK 6
to sway / to swing / to move back and forth / to oscillate
HSK 4
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
passive
HSK 5
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
to undulate / to fluctuate / wave motion / rise and fall
HSK 6
to respond instantly / to act at once on hearing the news
to flow / to circulate / to go from place to place / to be mobile / (of assets) liquid
HSK 5
electric-powered / (Tw) video game
HSK 6
earthquake (old term)
sports / sporting activity
to rotate (about an axis) / to revolve / to turn / to move in a circle / to gyrate
HSK 6
act / action / activity / move / movement
HSK 5
charity event / public service activities
to link / to peg (currency) / gang (gears) / continuously / serial verb construction
to motivate
to touch / to stir up (trouble or emotions) / to move (sb's emotions or worry)
HSK 7-9
manual / manually operated / manual gear-change
HSK 7-9
to roll / (to do sth) in a loop / to scroll (computing) / to progressively expand (economics) / to rumble (of thunder)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to feel a rush of excitement
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
to incite
to shake; to sway; to rock
May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
to take action / to adopt policies / to move on some issue
rhythm / to move rhythmically
a bright idea suddenly occurs (idiom); to hit upon an inspiration / to be struck by a brainwave
HSK 7-9
to drive / to propel / drive (vehicle wheel) / drive mechanism (tape or disk) / device driver (computing software)
HSK 7-9
to shift sth with a crowbar etc / (fig.) to influence by applying leverage
aerobics
to fiddle with / to tamper with / to meddle with / to move randomly / to flail about
to remain unmoved
(Tw) to play video games
to alter / to modify / to revise
HSK 7-9
to start / to set in motion / to move / to march / to dig in (eating) / to tuck in (eating)
HSK 7-9
the Save the Nation Anti-Japanese Protest Movement stemming from the Manchurian railway incident of 18th July 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变
clandestine activities / covert operation
(geotectonics) crustal movement; diastrophism
to shake / to sway
to twitch / to throb / a spasm / to divert (money) to other uses
to incite / to instigate
HSK 7-9
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
sports; athletic activities
drive (transmission in an engine)
to wave sth / to brandish
to hold back one's troops without moving (idiom); to bide one's time
rally
economic activity
free time (between organized activities)
military operation
Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (PRC political campaign from 1950-1952), abbr. for 鎮壓反革命運動|镇压反革命运动
disturbance; uproar / CL: 陣|阵 / to become restless
locomotive / motorized / power-driven / adaptable / flexible (use, treatment, timing etc)
HSK 7-9
The Sound and the Fury (novel by William Faulkner 威廉·福克納|威廉·福克纳)
(idiom) to be excited to dig into the delicious food
to fan / to flap / to incite / to instigate (a strike etc)
to stir / to prod / to poke / to move sideways / to strum (on a guitar etc)
to begin to stir (idiom) / to get restless / to become threatening
to shake up / to deal a shock / (fig.) to stir (sb's heart)
physical labor
to shake / to vibrate / to strongly affect / shock / vibration
HSK 7-9
to affect / to produce a change in sth
motionless
political movement
thunderous applause (idiom)
social activity
movable
to move (sth) around / to move house
to put into action / to transform into acts
track and field sports
(of the parts of a machine) to move together / to act in coordination; to be coupled / linkage
to reboot; to restart
to stir / to lift / to set sth in motion
insurrection / rebellion
volcanic activity / volcanism

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