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震动

zhèn dòng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 震動

震动 (zhèn dòng) means "to shake; to vibrate; to strongly affect". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 震动 means

1. to shake
2. to vibrate
3. to strongly affect
4. shock
5. vibration

The characters in 震动

• 震zhènto shake; to vibrate; to jolt
• 动dòng(of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace

Example sentences

• 我感觉到我的手在震动
  Wǒ gǎnjuédào wǒ de shǒu zài zhèndòng
  I felt my hands tremble.
• 飞机开始震动的时候，乘客们都紧张了起来。
  Fēijī kāishǐ zhèndòng de shíhou, chéngkè men dōu jǐnzhāng le qǐlai.
  Passengers became nervous when the plane began to vibrate.
• 相反，他们通过舌头来侦测声音，并通过头骨内的感觉器官来感受震动。
  Xiāngfǎn, tāmen tōngguò shétou lái zhēncè shēngyīn, bìng tōngguò tóugǔ nèi de gǎnjuéqìguān lái gǎnshòu zhèndòng.
  Instead, they detect sounds through their tongues and feel vibrations through sense organs in the skull.

Words starting with 震动

• 震动棒zhèn dòng bàngvibrator (sex toy)

Sounds the same

Read zhèn dòng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 振动to vibrate; to shake; vibration

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