| 大动脉 | dà dòng mài | main artery (blood vessel); fig. main highway; arterial road |
| 抽动 | chōu dòng | to twitch; to throb; a spasm; to extract and use |
| 动议 | dòng yì | motion; proposal |
| 原生动物 | yuán shēng dòng wù | protozoan (bacteria) |
| 传动带 | chuán dòng dài | transmission belt |
| 半自动 | bàn zì dòng | semi-automatic |
| 永动机 | yǒng dòng jī | a perpetual motion machine |
| 掀动 | xiān dòng | to stir; to lift; to set sth in motion |
| 别动队 | bié dòng duì | special detachment; commando; an armed secret agent squad |
| 动觉 | dòng jué | kinesthesia; perception of one's bodily surroundings and movement |
| 审美活动 | shěn měi huó dòng | appreciating the arts; esthetic activity |
| 心动 | xīn dòng | heartbeat; palpitation; one's heartbeat quickens; tachycardia; fig. emotionally affected; aroused (of desire, emotion, interest etc); startled; shocked; perturbed |
| 按兵不动 | àn bīng bù dòng | to hold back one's troops without moving (idiom); to bide one's time |
| 灵机一动 | líng jī yī dòng | a bright idea suddenly occurs (idiom); to hit upon an inspiration; to be struck by a brainwave |
| 动情 | dòng qíng | to get excited; passionate; aroused to passion; to fall in love; on heat (of animals) |
| 动物油 | dòng wù yóu | animal fat |
| 国际劳动节 | Guó jì Láo dòng Jié | May Day; International Labor Day (May 1) |
| 布朗运动 | bù lǎng yùn dòng | Brownian motion |
| 节肢动物 | jié zhī dòng wù | arthropod |
| 护国运动 | hù guó yùn dòng | Campaign to defend the republic (1915) or National protection war, a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor |
| 动员 | dòng yuán | to mobilize; to arouse; mobilization; CL:次,个 |
| 电动机 | diàn dòng jī | electric motor |
| 一类保护动物 | yī lèi bǎo hù dòng wù | class A protected animal |
| 三反运动 | sān fǎn yùn dòng | "Three Anti" campaign (anti-corruption, anti-waste, anti-bureaucracy), early PRC purge of 1951-52 |
| 三胚层动物 | sān pēi céng dòng wù | triploblastic animals (having three germ layers) |
| 不信任动议 | bù xìn rèn dòng yì | motion of no confidence (against the government, in parliamentary debates) |
| 不动 | bù dòng | motionless |
| 不动摇 | bù dòng yáo | unmoved |
| 不动点 | bù dòng diǎn | fixed point (of a map in math.) |
| 不动点定理 | bù dòng diǎn dìng lǐ | fixed point theorem (math.) |
| 不及物动词 | bù jí wù dòng cí | intransitive verb |
| 世界运动会 | Shì jiè Yùn dòng huì | World Games |
| 中国移动通信 | Zhōng guó yí dòng tōng xìn | China Mobile (PRC state telecommunications company) |
| 主动免疫 | zhǔ dòng miǎn yì | active immunity |
| 主动脉 | zhǔ dòng mài | aorta; principal artery |
| 互动 | hù dòng | interactive |
| 互动电视 | hù dòng diàn shì | interactive TV |
| 五卅运动 | wǔ sà yùn dòng | anti-imperialist movement of 30th May 1925, involving general strike esp. in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong etc |
| 五四爱国运动 | wǔ sì ài guó yùn dòng | May Fourth Movement; Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles |
| 人手动 | rén shǒu dòng | manually controlled |
| 人民行动党 | rén mín xíng dòng dǎng | People's Action Party (ruling party in Singapore) |
| 低等动物 | dī děng dòng wù | lower animal; primitive life-form |
| 促动 | cù dòng | to motivate |
| 保安自动化 | bǎo ān zì dòng huà | security automation |
| 候风地动仪 | hòu fēng dì dòng yí | the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 张衡 in 132 |
| 假动作 | jiǎ dòng zuò | fake move or pass (sports); feint |
| 健美运动 | jiàn měi yùn dòng | body-building |
| 传动器 | chuán dòng qì | drive (engine) |
| 传动机构 | chuán dòng jī gòu | transmission mechanism |
| 传动系统 | chuán dòng xì tǒng | transmission system; power drive |
