Free Chinese & Japanese Online Dictionary

If you enter English words, search is Boolean mode:
Enter fall to get just entries with fall in them.
Enter fall* to get results including "falling" and "fallen".
Enter +fall -season -autumn to make sure fall is included, but not entries with autumn or season.

Key:

Mandarin Chinese information.
Old Wade-Giles romanization used only in Taiwan.
Japanese information.
Buddhist definition. Note: May not apply to all sects.
 Definition may be different outside of Buddhism.

There are 12 total results for your Motivate search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

促動


促动

see styles
cù dòng
    cu4 dong4
ts`u tung
    tsu tung
to motivate

拉動


拉动

see styles
lā dòng
    la1 dong4
la tung
to pull; (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity); to motivate (people to do something)

モチベート

see styles
 mochibeeto
    モチベート
motivation; motivate

気合をいれる

see styles
 kiaioireru
    きあいをいれる
(exp,v1) (1) to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to motivate oneself; (2) to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse

気合を入れる

see styles
 kiaioireru
    きあいをいれる
(exp,v1) (1) to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to motivate oneself; (2) to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse

発破をかける

see styles
 happaokakeru
    はっぱをかける
(exp,v1) (1) to set off an explosive; (2) to start a fire under someone; to motivate someone with rough words

発破を掛ける

see styles
 happaokakeru
    はっぱをかける
(exp,v1) (1) to set off an explosive; (2) to start a fire under someone; to motivate someone with rough words

気合いをいれる

see styles
 kiaioireru
    きあいをいれる
(exp,v1) (1) to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to motivate oneself; (2) to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse

気合いを入れる

see styles
 kiaioireru
    きあいをいれる
(exp,v1) (1) to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to motivate oneself; (2) to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse

Variations:
発破をかける
ハッパを掛ける
発破を掛ける

see styles
 happaokakeru(happao掛keru); happaokakeru(発破okakeru, 発破o掛keru)
    ハッパをかける(ハッパを掛ける); はっぱをかける(発破をかける, 発破を掛ける)
(exp,v1) (1) (kana only) to set off an explosive; (exp,v1) (2) (kana only) to start a fire under someone; to motivate someone with rough words

Variations:
気合を入れる
気合いを入れる
気合をいれる
気合いをいれる

see styles
 kiaioireru
    きあいをいれる
(exp,v1) (1) to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to motivate oneself; (exp,v1) (2) to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse

Variations:
豚もおだてりゃ木に登る
ブタもおだてりゃ木に登る
豚も煽てりゃ木に登る

see styles
 butamoodateryakininoboru(豚moodaterya木ni登ru, 豚mo煽terya木ni登ru); butamoodateryakininoboru(butamoodaterya木ni登ru)
    ぶたもおだてりゃきにのぼる(豚もおだてりゃ木に登る, 豚も煽てりゃ木に登る); ブタもおだてりゃきにのぼる(ブタもおだてりゃ木に登る)
(exp,v5r) (proverb) flattery will motivate anyone; flattery can do wonders; even a pig will climb up a tree if flattered

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 12 results for "Motivate" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

Just because a word appears here does not mean it is appropriate for a tattoo, your business name, etc. Please consult a professional before doing anything stupid with this data.

We do offer Chinese and Japanese Tattoo Services. We'll also be happy to help you translate something for other purposes.

No warranty as to the correctness, potential vulgarity, or clarity is expressed or implied. We did not write any of these definitions (though we occasionally act as a contributor/editor to the CC-CEDICT project). You are using this dictionary for free, and you get what you pay for.

The following titles are just to help people who are searching for an Asian dictionary to find this page.

Japanese Kanji Dictionary

Free Asian Dictionary

Chinese Kanji Dictionary

Chinese Words Dictionary

Chinese Language Dictionary

Japanese Chinese Dictionary