"Motion" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 运动 |  yùn dòng | to move / to exercise / sports / exercise / motion / movement / campaign / CL:場|场[chang3] |   |
| 动作 | dòng zuò | movement / motion / action / CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 动态 | dòng tài | movement / motion / development / trend / dynamic (science) | |
| 议案 | yì àn | proposal / motion | |
| 提案 | tí àn | proposal / draft resolution / motion (to be debated) / to propose a bill / to make a proposal | |
| 动议 | dòng yì | motion / proposal | |
| 下来 | xià lai | to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders) | |
| 启动 | qǐ dòng | to start (a machine) / (fig.) to set in motion / to launch (an operation) / to activate (a plan) | |
| 波动 | bō dòng | to undulate / to fluctuate / wave motion / rise and fall | |
| 起步 | qǐ bù | to set out / to set in motion / the start (of some activity) | |
| 行进 | xíng jìn | to advance / forward motion | |
| 身法 | shēn fǎ | pose or motion of one's body in martial arts | |
| 定格 | dìng gé | to fix / to confine to / freeze frame / stop motion (filmmaking) | |
| 开动 | kāi dòng | to start / to set in motion / to move / to march / to dig in (eating) / to tuck in (eating) | |
| 冲撞 | chōng zhuàng | to collide / jerking motion / to impinge / to offend / to provoke | |
| 兴办 | xīng bàn | to begin / to set in motion | |
| 星宿 | xīng xiù | constellation (arch., now 星座) / one of the 28 constellations of traditional Chinese astronomy and astrology / motion of stars since one's birth (predetermining one's fate in astrology) | |
| 去 | qù | to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation) | |
| 水上运动 | shuǐ shàng yùn dòng | water sports / aquatic motion / movement over water | |
| 掀动 | xiān dòng | to stir / to lift / to set sth in motion | |
| 慢镜头 | màn jìng tóu | slow motion | |
| 直 | zhí | straight / to straighten / fair and reasonable / frank / straightforward / (indicates continuing motion or action) / vertical / vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters | |
| 交变 | jiāo biàn | half-period of a wave motion / alternation | |
| 生命在于运动 | shēng mìng zài yú yùn dòng | life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations) / Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle). / Life derives from physical exercise. | |
| 附议 | fù yì | to second a motion | |
| 永动机 | yǒng dòng jī | a perpetual motion machine | |
| 慢动作 | màn dòng zuò | slow motion | |
| 重影 | chóng yǐng | overlapping images / double exposure of photo (e.g. due to fault or motion of camera) / double vision | |
| 运动病 | yùn dòng bìng | car sickness / motion sickness | |
| 不信任案 | bù xìn rèn àn | no-confidence motion | |
| 开普勒 | Kāi pǔ lè | Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion | |
| 布朗运动 | bù lǎng yùn dòng | Brownian motion | |
| 不信任动议 | bù xìn rèn dòng yì | motion of no confidence (against the government, in parliamentary debates) | |
| 往复运动 | wǎng fù yùn dòng | backwards and forwards action (e.g. of piston or pump) / reciprocating motion | |
| 敛步 | liǎn bù | to restrain motion / to check one's step | |
| 旋转运动 | xuán zhuǎn yùn dòng | rotation / rotary motion | |
| 简谐运动 | jiǎn xié yùn dòng | simple harmonic motion (in mechanics) / motion of a simple pendulum | |
| 绕射 | rào shè | interference (of wave motion in physics) | |
| 踥蹀 | qiè dié | walking / in motion | |
| 运动定律 | yùn dòng dìng lu:4 | laws of motion (mechanics) | |
| 运动方程 | yùn dòng fāng chéng | equations of motion | |
| 开普勒定律 | Kāi pǔ lè dìng lu:4 | Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1609, 1618) | |
| 顺行 | shùn xíng | circular motion in the same sense as the sun / clockwise | |
| 体感 | tǐ gǎn | physical sensation / somatosensory / motion sensing (gaming) | |
| 不采取行动动议 | no action motion / motion of non action | | |
| 宪法动议 | xiàn fǎ dòng yì | constitutional motion | |
| 粒子运动 | particle motion | | |
| 运动病，晕机病，晕动病 | motion sickness | | |
| 慢速大规模毁灭性武器 | màn sù dài guī mú huǐ miè xìng wǔ qì | weapon of mass destruction in slow motion | |
| 船舶姿态敏感器 | vessel motion sensor / vehicle motion sensor | | |
| 动目标监测器 | motion sensor / motion detector | | |
| 动目标传感器 | motion sensor / motion detector | | |
| 横摇 | héng yáo | rolling motion (of a boat) | |
| 纵摇 | zòng yáo | pitching motion (of a boat) | |
