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一动不动 (yī dòng bù dòng): meaning and stroke order

一动不动 (yī dòng bù dòng) means motionless.

一动不动

Simplified
一动不动
Traditional
一動不動
Pinyin
yī dòng bù dòng

Stroke order of 一动不动

一

  • yī one; single
  • 1 stroke

Stroke by stroke

动

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

Stroke by stroke

不

  • bù no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

动

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 一动不动

  1. yī dòng bù dòng Traditional 一動不動
    • motionless

Radicals of the characters

一
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 1 stroke
动
Radical 力 (Kangxi radical 19) · 6 strokes · 云 on the left, 力 on the right
不
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 4 strokes · built from 丆 and 卜

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.

一动不动 in our stories

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  • 就在这时，丹增突然停了下来，指着路边的雪地。一个穿着橙色羽绒服的登山者蜷在那里，一动不动。

    jiù zài zhèshí Dānzēng tūrán tíng le xiàlai zhǐzhe lùbiān de xuědì yí gè chuān zhe chéngsè yǔróngfú de dēngshānzhě quán zài nàli yídòngbúdòng

    Just then Tenzing suddenly stopped and pointed at the snow beside the route. A climber in an orange down suit lay curled up there, motionless.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 一动不动

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).