音読み: ヨウ
訓読み: おどる・おどり
画数: 14
部首: あしへん（足）
Meaning
Dance / Leap
- Basic forms
- 踊る — dance / base form
- 踊ります — dance / masu form
- 踊った — danced / ta form
- 踊って — dancing … / te form
- 踊らない — do not dance / negative
- 踊れば — if (one) dances / conditional
- Common expressions
- 音楽に合わせて踊る — dance to music
- 盆踊りを踊る — dance the Bon dance
- 心が踊った — one’s heart leaped
- More
- 踊っている — is dancing / state
踊る（おどる） is a godan intransitive verb. It refers to dancing with bodily movement, and is also used metaphorically for excitement or joy, as in 心が踊る.
- 踊る — to dance; to leap
- 踊り — dance; dancing
- 舞踊 — dance; classic dance
- 盆踊り — Bon festival dance
- 踊躍 — leaping; bounding (literary)
- 土俵入りの踊り — ceremonial ring “dance” (sumo)
A phono-semantic build: the left side 足 (legs, movement) marks the set, while the right side 甬 gives the reading ヨウ and suggests forward surge. Together they picture feet springing into motion — hence “to dance, to leap.”