(zuò) - to do, to make, to work as in Mandarin
zuòTraditional: 做
Translation
to do, to make, to work as
Word origin
A single character meaning to do or to make. It is a phono-semantic compound: the 亻(person) radical on the left signals an action carried out by a person, and 故 (gù) on the right serves as the phonetic. It is a relatively late character, historically overlapping with 作 (zuò) of similar meaning.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 亻(person radical) + 故 (gù, phonetic)
Stroke order
做
Examples
？
What are you doing?
顿。
She made a delicious dinner.
。
He has been working as a teacher for ten years already.
。
I want to become a doctor.
。
Mum is cooking in the kitchen.
Appears in 6 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 做.
Used in
Stories
(7)Grammar articles
(12)Mandarin Advanced Grammar (C1-C2 / HSK 6+): Chengyu, Classical Remnants, and Register
The Mandarin 把 (bǎ) Construction: Fronting the Object to Say What You Did To It
The Mandarin 被 (bèi) Passive: Saying Something Was Done To the Subject
Mandarin Co-verbs: 从, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给 - the Prepositions That Look Like Verbs
Concession in Mandarin: 虽然...还是/但是, 不过, and 还是 (Although, Even So, Nonetheless)
Figurative Directional Complements in Mandarin: 起来, 下去 and 出来 Beyond Up, Down and Out
Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
Mandarin Modal Verbs: 会, 想, 要, 应该, 可以, 能 and the Future-Intent Words 打算, 准备
Mandarin Potential Complements: Can You Reach the Result? (吃得完, 听不懂, 买不起)
Mandarin Resultative Complements: Fusing a Result onto the Verb (看见, 吃完, 找到)
The Mandarin 是…的 (shì...de) Construction: Highlighting When, Where, and How Something Happened
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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