作
zuòTraditional: 作
#5086 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
to do, to make, work
Stroke order
作
Examples
。
My job is busy.
，。
As a teacher, he's very responsible.
品。
Her work is famous.
诗。
He composed a beautiful poem.
画专。
She is very focused when painting.
作 (zuò) means to do or to make, overlapping heavily with 做. It dominates 工作 (work) and 作品 (creative work), and serves as 'as' in 作为 (as, in the capacity of).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 作.
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