HSK 6 · Ideas

动静 dòngjing “sound of movement” in Chinese

Traditional 動靜

What 动静 means

  1. sound of movement
  2. activity
  3. movement
  4. (detectable) movement
  5. (sign of) activity
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • movement and stillness

How to say 动静

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale动dòng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own静jingneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

动静 in a sentence

  1. 外面有什么动静？

    Wàimiàn yǒu shénme dòngjing?

    What’s that noise outside?

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 半夜里我听到厨房有动静。

    Bànyè lǐ wǒ tīngdào chúfáng yǒu dòngjing.

    In the middle of the night, I heard something moving in the kitchen.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 动静 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 动 (dòng) with each of its parts in a different colour
动dòngto move
  • 云cloud · yún
  • 力strength · lìMeaning part

Memory aidStrength 力 makes things move. In the full form 動, 重 (zhòng) gave the sound.

The character 静 (jìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
静jingstill
  • 青blue-green · qīngMeaning part
  • 争to dispute · zhēngSound part

青 hints at the meaning (blue-green); 争 (zhēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jing.

How to write 动静

动 6 strokes · 静 14 strokes

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动静 (dòngjing) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 动静 (dòngjing). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 动静

Words with 动

动dòng · to move运动yùndòng · to exercise动物dòngwù · animal动物园dòngwùyuán · zoo运动员yùndòngyuán · athlete运动会yùndònghuì · sports meet活动huódòng · activity感动gǎndòng · to be moved激动jīdòng · excited动作dòngzuò · movement

Words with 静

安静ānjìng · quiet冷静lěngjìng · calm平静píngjìng · calm寂静jìjìng · quiet镇静zhènjìng · calm

More words: Ideas & Concepts

地步dìbù · extent定义dìngyì · definition递增dìzēng · to increase steadily动机dòngjī · motive动力dònglì · driving force动态dòngtài · trend对策duìcè · countermeasure对立duìlì · to oppose

FAQs

动静 (dòngjing) means “sound of movement” or “activity”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dòngjing: dòng with a 4th tone, then jing with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 动静 is written 動靜. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type dongjing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 动静 from the suggestions. Typing dongjing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
动静 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.