"Movement" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yí dòng to move / movement / migration / mobile / portable
 yùn dòng to move / to exercise / sports / exercise / motion / movement / campaign / CL:場|场[chang3]
 dòng zuò movement / motion / action / CL:個|个[ge4]
 dòng tài movement / motion / development / trend / dynamic (science)
 jǔ dòng act / action / activity / move / movement
 dòng jìng (detectable) movement / (sign of) activity / movement and stillness
 zhāo shù move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts) / gambit / trick / scheme / movement / same as 著數|着数[zhao1 shu4]
 yuè zhāng movement (of a symphony)
 lù shù stratagem / method / approach / movement (martial arts) / social connections / (sb's) background story
 zhāo shù move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts) / gambit / trick / scheme / movement / same as 招數|招数[zhao1 shu4]
 zhāng chapter / section / clause / movement (of symphony) / seal / badge / regulation / order
 qi lai (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3 lai5]
 dòng gǎn sense of movement (often in a static work of art) / dynamic / vivid / lifelike
 diào dòng to transfer / to maneuver (troops etc) / movement of personnel / to mobilize / to bring into play
 shǒu jiǎo hand and foot / movement of limbs / action / trick / step in a procedure (CL:道[dao4])
 jìn dài the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
 xíng chē to drive a vehicle / movement of vehicles
 yī jǔ yī dòng every movement / each and every move
 chí dùn slow in one's reactions / sluggish (in movement or thought)
 wǔ sì fourth of May, cf 五四運動|五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
 bù dòng shēng sè not a word or movement (idiom) / remaining calm and collected / not batting an eyelid
 kuáng biāo hurricane / violent reform or revolution / violent movement or force
 huá dòng to slide / sliding movement
 rú dòng to wiggle / to squirm / peristalsis (wave movement of gut wall)
 xià bàn shēn lower half of one's body / Lower Body (Chinese poetry movement of the early 21st century)
 Fǎ lún Gōng Falun Gong (Chinese spiritual movement founded in 1992, regarded as a cult by the PRC government)
姿 wǔ zī dancer's posture and movement
 qún zhòng xìng to do with the masses / mass (meeting, movement etc)
 Liáng Qǐ chāo Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
 jiā gōng attack from two sides / pincer movement / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
 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)
 Wǔ sì Yùn dòng May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
 dòng (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[dong4 ci2], verb
 Kāng Yǒu wéi Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
 Xīn Wén huà Yùn dòng the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science
西 Xī xué Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
 shuǐ shàng yùn dòng water sports / aquatic motion / movement over water
 Yáng wù Yùn dòng Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动
 tāi dòng fetal movement
 bàn zhù to entangle / to hinder / to impede movement
 cháng rú dòng peristalsis (wave movement of gut wall)
 yī gū lu with a rolling or twisting movement / in a single movement / in one breath
 Wáng Dān Wang Dan (1969-), Chinese dissident, one of the leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989
 Hàn xué sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
 Qīng nián huì YMCA (international Christian youth movement, formed in 1844)
 Tán Sì tóng Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
 mín yùn civil transport / movement aimed at the masses / democracy movement (abbr.)
 méng lóng shī Misty Poetry, a post-Cultural Revolution poetry movement
  national liberation movement
 Bái jūn White Guard or White Movement, anti-communist troops fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
 xué yùn student movement
 Wèi lái pài Futurism (artistic and social movement of the 20th century)
 Bù Jié méng Yùn dòng Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
 Gē lǎo huì late-Qing underground resistance movement against the Qing dynasty
 chuàn to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across
 jiàn material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike / (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt)
 jǔ shǒu tóu zú one's every movement (idiom) / comportment / gestures
 Shí yè Shia (a movement in Islam)
 cè fēng oblique attack (brush movement in painting)
 héng bǐ bristles lying down (brush movement in painting)
 Sī mì Yuē sè Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844), founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
 yǎn dòng eye movement
 yǎn dòng jì lù eye movement recording
 yǎn dòng jì shù eye movement technique
 zhé bǐ against the bristles (brush movement in painting)
 zhèng fēng frontal attack (brush movement in painting)
 yǎn the movement of a fish's mouth at the surface of the water
 Sān zì abbr. for 三自愛國教會|三自爱国教会[San1 zi4 Ai4 guo2 Jiao4 hui4], Three-Self Patriotic Movement
 Sān zì Aì guó Jiào huì Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949
 Sān zì Jiào huì Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949
 wǔ sà yùn dòng anti-imperialist movement of 30th May 1925, involving general strike esp. in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong etc
 wǔ sì ài guó yùn dòng May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
 Dǎo biǎn Taiwan political movement aimed at forcing the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁|陈水扁[Chen2 Shui3 bian3] in 2006 over corruption allegations
 Liú Guāng dì Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi5] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
 Fǎn yòu pài Dòu zhēng Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
 Fǎn yòu Yùn dòng Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
 fǎn Yuán yùn dòng anti-Yuan movement, opposing Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] in National Protection War 護國戰爭|护国战争[Hu4 guo2 Zhan4 zheng1] 1915-1916 / same as 反袁鬥爭|反袁斗争[fan3 Yuan2 dou4 zheng1]
 gǔ wén yùn dòng cultural movement aspiring to study and emulate classic works, at different periods of history, esp. Tang and Song
 Wú ěr kāi xī Örkesh Dölet (1968-), one of the main leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989
 Táng Sòng bā dà jiā Eight Giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動|古文运动[gu3 wen2 yun4 dong4], namely: Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4], Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元[Liu3 Zong1 yuan2], Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1], the Three Su father and sons 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1], Wang Anshi 王安石[Wang2 An1 shi2], Zeng Gong 曾鞏|曾巩[Zeng1 Gong3]
 Sì qīng the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66) / abbr. for 四清運動|四清运动[Si4 qing1 Yun4 dong4]
 Sì qīng Yùn dòng the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66), which aimed to cleanse the politics, economy, organization and ideology of the Communist Party
 guó jì gòng chǎn zhǔ yì yùn dòng Comintern / the international communist movement
 dì qiào yùn dòng crustal movement / movement of tectonic plates
 fù nu:3 yùn dòng women's movement / feminism
 xué sheng yùn dòng student movement
 bēng huài zuò yòng mass wasting (geology) / slope movement
广 Kāng Guǎng rén Kang Guangren (1867-1898), younger brother of Kang Youwei 康有為|康有为[Kang1 You3 wei2] and one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
 Zhāng Pǔ Zhang Pu (1602-1641), Ming dynasty scholar and prolific writer, proponent of 複社|复社[fu4 she4] cultural renewal movement, author of Five tombstone inscriptions 五人墓碑記|五人墓碑记[wu3 ren2 mu4 bei1 ji4]
 xiàn zhāng pài the Chartist movement (in the 1840s in England)
 Wù xū Liù jūn zǐ the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同|谭嗣同[Tan2 Si4 tong2], Lin Xu 林旭[Lin2 Xu4], Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀|杨深秀[Yang2 Shen1 xiu4], Liu Guangdi 劉光第|刘光第[Liu2 Guang1 di4], Kang Guangren 康廣仁|康广仁[Kang1 Guang3 ren2] and Yang Rui 楊銳|杨锐[Yang2 Rui4]
 Kàng Rì Jiù wáng Yùn dòng 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
 zhèng zhì yùn dòng political movement
 Xīn Rú jiā New Confucianism, a social and political movement founded in 1920s China that combines aspects of Western and Eastern philosophy / see also 當代新儒家|当代新儒家[Dang1 dai4 Xin1 Ru2 jia1]
 Ang2 Shān Aung San (1915-1947), Burmese general and politician, hero of Myanmar independence movement and father of Aung San Su Kyi 昂山素季[Ang2 Shan1 Su4 Ji4]
 Chūn liǔ Spring Willow Society, pioneering Chinese theatrical company set up in Tokyo in 1906, part of New Culture Movement 新文化運動|新文化运动[Xin1 Wen2 hua4 Yun4 dong4], continued in China from 1912 as 新劇同志會|新剧同志会[Xin1 ju4 Tong2 zhi4 hui4]
 Chūn liǔ Jù chǎng Spring Willow Society, pioneering Chinese theatrical company set up in Tokyo in 1906, part of New Culture Movement 新文化運動|新文化运动[Xin1 Wen2 hua4 Yun4 dong4], continued in China from 1912 as 新劇同志會|新剧同志会[Xin1 ju4 Tong2 zhi4 hui4]
 Chūn liǔ shè Spring Willow Society, pioneering Chinese theatrical company set up in Tokyo in 1906, part of New Culture Movement 新文化運動|新文化运动[Xin1 Wen2 hua4 Yun4 dong4], continued in China from 1912 as 新劇同志會|新剧同志会[Xin1 ju4 Tong2 zhi4 hui4]
 Lǐ Shū tóng Liu Shutong (1880-1942), painter, Buddhist monk and distinguished figure in New Culture Movement 新文化運動|新文化运动[Xin1 Wen2 hua4 Yun4 dong4] after the Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4] of 1911
 Dōng Tū jué sī tǎn Yī sī lán Yùn dòng East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
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