Chinese Character Wiki
作

zuò, zuō

make

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 乍 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

乍 sound component

乍  Sound component

zhà

  

suddenly

Evolution

作 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
作 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
作 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
作 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
作 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

作  

zuò

make; work; compose, write; act, perform; to do; to grow; to write or compose; to pretend; to regard as; to feel; writings or works

作  

zuō

worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)

Most common words with 作
Freq.
Word
Meaning

工作

to work

作为

deed

作

to do

合作

to cooperate

作用

to act on

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

做

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

做

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ˤak

tsak

zuò

do, work

*[ts]ˤak-s

tsuH

zuò

do, work


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 98.3982% of movies

124th most common character in movies

49th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+4F5C

Shuowen

“作，起也。从人，从乍。”


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