動

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Han character 1.3.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Alternative forms

• 𨔝, 㣫

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 重 + semantic 力 (“‘strength’”)

[edit] Han character

動 (radical 19 力+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹土大尸 (HGKS), four-corner 2412₇, composition ⿰重力)

1. move, happen
2. movement, action

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 148, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2390
• Dae Jaweon: page 333, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 375, character 6
• Unihan data for U+52D5

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

動 (simplified 动, Yale dung6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

動 (grade 3 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: どう (dō)
• Kun: うごく (ugoku), うごかす (ugokasu), うごき (ugoki)

[edit] Compounds

• 運動 (うんどう, undō), “‘athletics’”)
• 動画 (どうが, dōga), “‘video’”)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

動
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 동 (revised: dong, McCune-Reischauer: tong)

• Name (hangeul): 움직일()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

動 (simplified 动, pinyin dòng (dong4), Wade-Giles tung⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 嚙齒目動物

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

動 (động, đụng)