To Operate
Intransitive verb and Godan verb
うごく
あそこで何か動いたよ。
Something moved over there.
トーフグのサーバーは二十四時間動いているので、いつでもアクセスできますよ。
Tofugu's servers operate twenty-four hours a day, so it can always be accessed.
くそ〜。パソコンが動かなくなっちゃったぜ。どうしてこうなったんだろう？！
Shoot! My computer doesn’t work. How did this happen?!
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means move so the verb vocab version is to move.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you: Someone is telling you to move. They are saying "you go (うご) over there. Move! Move!" If it helps, have them pronounce "You go" more like "Ugo."