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感动 (gǎn dòng): meaning and stroke order

感动 (gǎn dòng) means to move (sb), to touch (sb emotionally), moving.

感动

Simplified
感动
Traditional
感動
Pinyin
gǎn dòng

Stroke order of 感动

感

  • gǎn to feel; to move
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

动

  • dòng (of sth) to move; to set in movement
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 動

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 感动

  1. gǎn dòng Traditional 感動
    • to move (sb)
    • to touch (sb emotionally)
    • moving

Radicals of the characters

感
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 13 strokes · 咸 on top, 心 below
动
Radical 力 (Kangxi radical 19) · 6 strokes · 云 on the left, 力 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

感动 in our stories

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  • 几年以后,一位神仙被他感动,送给他一把神斧。

    jǐ nián yǐhòu yí wèi shénxiān bèi tā gǎndòng sònggěi tā yì bǎ shén fǔ

    A few years later an immortal, moved by him, gave him a magic axe.

    From the story Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5

  • 重耳喝完汤,知道了真相,感动得流下了眼泪:“将来我若回国,一定报答你。”

    Chóng'ěr hē wán tāng zhīdao le zhēnxiàng gǎndòng de liú xià le yǎnlèi jiānglái wǒ ruò huíguó yídìng bàodá nǐ

    When Chong'er finished the soup and learned the truth, he wept: "If I ever return home, I will surely repay you."

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 可最让人感动的,也许是故事的后来。惠子去世以后,庄子经过他的坟墓,停下来给学生讲了一个故事。

    kě zuì ràng rén gǎndòng de yěxǔ shì gùshi de hòulái Huìzǐ qùshì yǐhòu Zhuāngzǐ jīngguò tā de fénmù tíng xiàlai gěi xuésheng jiǎng le yí gè gùshi

    But perhaps the most moving part is what came after. When Huizi had died, Zhuangzi passed his grave and stopped to tell his students a story.

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 感动

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).