行动
xíng​dòng HSK2

to take action

行动 行動 xíng​dòng
to take action verbnoun
to act or carry out an activity for a specific purpose

冲动的人似乎无法控制自己的直接反应，也无法在行动前思考。

chōng​dòng de rén sì​hū wú​fǎ kòng​zhì zì​jǐ de zhí​jiē fǎn​yìng, yě wú​fǎ zài xíng​dòng qián sī​kǎo.

People who are impulsive seem unable to control their immediate reactions or think before they act.

你必须知道何时应该等待，何时应该行动。

nǐ bì​xū zhī​dao hé​shí yīng​gāi děng​dài, hé​shí yīng​gāi xíng​dòng.

You must know when to act and when to wait.

action noun
an operation, conduct, behavior, or movement

把想法变成行动很难。

bǎ xiǎng​fa biàn​chéng xíng​dòng hěn nán.

Turning ideas into action is difficult.

to move about verb
to move about; to walk; to be mobile

应允许婴儿在适当的监督下自由行动。

yīng yǔn​xǔ yīng'ér zài shì​dàng de jiān​dū xià zì​yóu xíng​dòng.

Infants should be allowed to move freely with appropriate supervision.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
190.9 per million appears in 40% of films
Written text
157.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 2

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)