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動

動

動 U+52D5, 動
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52D5
← 勔
[U+52D4] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 勖 →
[U+52D6]
See also: 动, 働, and 重力

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

trad. 動
simp. 动
alt. forms 𨔝
㣫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 動
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (重) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
撞 *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
幢 *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
橦 *rdoːŋ, *doːŋ, *tjoŋ
噇 *rdoːŋ
𩪘 *rdoːŋ
艟 *rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
憧 *rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
畽 *tʰoːnʔ, *tʰuːnʔ
董 *toːŋʔ
蕫 *toːŋʔ, *doːŋ
箽 *toːŋʔ
懂 *toːŋʔ
湩 *toːŋs, *tuːŋʔ, *toŋs
曈 *tʰoːŋ, *tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
童 *doːŋ
僮 *doːŋ
瞳 *doːŋ
罿 *doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
犝 *doːŋ
潼 *doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
穜 *doːŋ, *doŋ
動 *doːŋʔ
慟 *doːŋs
堹 *toŋs
諥 *toŋs
蹱 *tʰoŋ, *tʰoŋs, *tjoŋ
重 *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs
緟 *doŋ, *doŋs
蝩 *doŋ
褈 *doŋ, *tʰjoŋ
鐘 *tjoŋ, *tjoŋ
鍾 *tjoŋ
籦 *tjoŋ
種 *tjoŋʔ, *tjoŋs
腫 *tjoŋʔ
踵 *tjoŋʔ
歱 *tjoŋʔ
喠 *tjoŋʔ, *tʰjoŋʔ
偅 *tjoŋs
衝 *tʰjoŋ
揰 *tʰjoŋs
尰 *djoŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *doːŋʔ) : phonetic 重 ‎(OC *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs) + semantic 力 ‎(“strength”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 動
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒揔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /duŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /duŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /duŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəwŋX/
Li
Rong		 /duŋX/
Wang
Li		 /duŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱuŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dòng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 動
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dòng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ duwngX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[Cə-m-]tˤoŋʔ/
English move

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 動
Reading # 1/1
No. 17449
Phonetic
component		 重
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 動
Old
Chinese		 /*doːŋʔ/

Definitions

動

  1. to move; to happen
  2. movement; action
  3. (grammar) Short for 動詞／动词 (dòngcí, “verb”).

Synonyms

  • (Cantonese, to move) 喐 (juk1)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

動

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. movement, to move

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

動 • ‎(dong)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 동 (McCune-Reischauer: tong)
  • Name (hangeul): 움직일()
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Vietnamese

Han character

動 (động, đụng)

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