动

to move

No. 61 most used

How it's built

• 云cloud
• 力strength

A way to remember it

Strength (力) enough to push clouds (云): movement.

Words

• 行动

  xíng dòng

  operation; action; CL:个
• 动物

  dòng wù

  animal
• 活动

  huó dòng

  to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc); movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc)
• 移动

  yí dòng

  to move; movement; migration
• 动作

  dòng zuò

  movement; motion; action; to act; to move
• 运动

  yùn dòng

  to move; to exercise; sports

Sentences

• 你应当多运动运动。

  nǐ yīng dāng duō yùn dòng yùn dòng

  You should exercise more.
• 他们从不做运动。

  tā men cóng bú zuò yùn dòng

  They never do exercise.
• 知道和行动是两回事。

  zhī dào hé xíng dòng shì liǎng huí shì

  Knowing and doing are two different things.
• 你是动手能力强的人吗？

  nǐ shì dòng shǒu néng lì qiáng de rén ma

  Are you a hands-on person?

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.