動
dong
Why a moved heart is also 動
The picture Something that was sitting still leaves its place and starts to move. 動 is leaving the spot and moving; 靜 is staying put without a stir.
Where the picture shows up in 動
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making the body move
저는 저녁마다 운동(運動)해요.
jeo-neun jeo-nyeong-ma-da un-dong-hae-yo
I exercise every evening.
A body that was sitting on the sofa standing up and swinging arms and legs, one after another
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moving all by itself
이 문은 자동(自動)으로 열려요.
i mu-neun ja-dong-eu-ro yeol-lyeo-yo
This door opens by itself.
A door panel sliding open sideways with no hand anywhere near it
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one slice of movement
동작(動作)이 너무 빨라요.
dong-ja-gi neo-mu ppal-la-yo
Your hand movements are too fast.
Just the one slice cut out where a hand travels from here to there once
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the heart getting moved
그 말에 감동(感動)했어요.
geu ma-re gam-dong-hae-sseo-yo
What you said really touched me.
A heart lying still, then shoved and left swinging by a single sentence
What moved is not the body but the inside.
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things that move on their own legs
동물(動物) 병원에 가요.
dong-mul byeong-wo-ne ga-yo
We're going to the animal hospital.
A tree stuck in one spot while things on four legs walk off theirs
All of it in one picture
動 is the picture of a thing leaving the place where it sat still. Make your own body leave the couch and that is exercise; if nothing touches it and it leaves on its own, that is automatic. Cut out one slice of the leaving and you have a gesture, and when what leaves is not the body but the inside of the chest, you are moved. Everything that can leave its spot on its own legs is bundled together and called an animal.