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行動

简行动 · 繁行動

Mandarin · pinyin xíng dòng

operation
action
Classifier: 個 gè
to move about
mobile

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行: xíng · go; walk; move, travel; circulate; Kangxi radical 144
動: dòng · move, happen; movement, action
动: dòng · move, happen; movement, action

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2–4 · xing2 dong4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

hang4 dung6

Cantonese word readings for 行動. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

to act; to take action

noun

action; act (Classifier: 個／个 m)
movement (Classifier: 個／个 m)
operation; campaign (Classifier: 個／个 m)

adj

mobile; portable

adv

(obsolete, usually of something undesirable) often; frequently; happening easily

verb

to move about; to get about; to be mobile

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