作 zuò
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zuò
verb
to do
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 4, p. 636; Unihan '作') -
zuò
verb
to act as; to serve as
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: 作 is synonymous with 当作 in this sense (Kroll 2015 '作' 4, p. 636; Unihan '作'). -
zuò
verb
to start
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 2, p. 636) -
zuò
noun
a writing; a work
Domain: Art 艺术
Notes: (Unihan '作') -
zuò
verb
to dress as; to be disguised as
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Clothing
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zuō
verb
to create; to make
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 3, p. 636; Unihan '作') -
zuō
verb
a workshop
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 作 is synonymous with 作坊 or 工场 in this sense. -
zuō
verb
to write; to compose
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 作 is synonymous with 写作 or 创作 in this sense (Kroll 2015 '作' 3a, p. 636; Unihan '作'). -
zuò
verb
to rise
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 作 is synonymous with 起 in this sense. Etymology: 作:起也。(Kroll 2015 '作' 1, p. 636; Shuo Wen) -
zuò
verb
to be aroused
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 1a, p. 636) -
zuò
noun
activity; action; undertaking
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 4a, p. 636) -
zuò
verb
to regard as
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 5, p. 636)
Contained in
- 作务(作務) to work; to serve
- 作东(作東) to host (a dinner); to treat; to pick up the check
- 俾昼作夜(俾晝作夜) to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
- 工作狂 workaholic
- 成名作 work that makes one's name
- 认作(認作) to regard as; to view; to consider something as; to treat as
- 沉积作用(沉積作用) sedimentation
- 工作台(工作檯) workbench; work station
- 造作 to make; to manufacture ; a lie; a rumor ; a fake; a forgery
- 作兴(作興) maybe; possibly; there is reason to believe
- 操作数(操作數) operand
- 多工作业(多工作業) multitasking
- 大有作为(大有作為) to accomplish much; to have good prospects; to have a promising future
- 制作(製作) to make; to create; to manufacture
- 作战(作戰) to combat; to battle; to wage war
- 农作(農作) cultivation of fields; to do farm work
- 翻作 to compose; to write words to a tune
- 社会工作者(社會工作者) caseworker; social worker
- 作出 to put out; to come up with; to make
- 反射动作(反射動作) reflex action
- 同化作用 assimilation; anabolism; constructive metabolism (using energy to make proteins etc)
- 聚合作用 polymerization
- 作贼(作賊) to be a thief
- 故作姿态(故作姿態) to put on an act
- 作派 gestures in opera ; affected
- 可作 can be used for
- 作人 to conduct oneself
- 已作故人 to have passed away
- 官僚作风(官僚作風) bureaucracy
- 作怪 (of a ghost) to make strange things happen; to act up; to act behind the scenes; to make mischief; odd; to misbehave (euphemism for having sex)
- 阴谋作乱(陰謀作亂) to plot a revolt
- 作息时间表(作息時間表) daily schedule; work schedule
- 正常工作 normal operation; proper functioning
- 代表作 representative work (of an author or artist)
- 起作用 to have an effect; to play a role; to be operative; to work; to function
- 触媒作用(觸媒作用) catalysis
- 作曲者 composer; song writer
- 工作表 worksheet
- 工作记忆(工作記憶) working memory
- 劳资合作(勞資合作) cooperation of labor and capitalists
- 日出而作,日入而息 to get up at sunrise and work until sunset; to lead a plain and hardworking life
- 作好准备(作好準備) to prepare; to make adequate preparation
- 作事不密 the scheme leaked
- 混作 mixed cropping (i.e. growing two crops together)
- 工作量 workload; volume of work
- 作倡 to perform; to act; to play a musical instrument
- 操作者 operator
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 魏紀 Records of the Wei Bamboo Annals 竹書紀年 — count: 189
- 卷二十一 趙四 Chapter 21: Zhao IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 165
- 卷十八 趙一 Chapter 18: Zhao I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 163
- 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 158
- 卷十四 楚一 Chapter 14: Chu I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 154
- 卷五 秦三 Chapter 5: Qin III Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 152
- 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 142
- 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 142
- 《太史公自序》 Autobiographical Afterword of the Grand Historian Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 142
- 卷三 秦一 Chapter 3: Qin I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 139
Collocations
- 一作 (一作) 一作冡宰 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧十月之交 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Shi Yue Zhi Jiao — count: 17
- 文本作 (文本作) 延文本作暮 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧谷風之什‧小明 Minor odes of the kingdom - Gu Feng Zhi Shen - Xiao Ming — count: 7
- 天作 (天作) 天作 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 周頌‧清廟之什‧天作 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Qing Miao - Tian Zuo — count: 4
- 作诵 (作誦) 家父作誦 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧節南山 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Jie Nan Shan — count: 3
- 作恺悌 (作愷悌) 延文本作愷悌 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧甫田之什‧青蠅 Minor odes of the kingdom - Fu Tian Zhi Shen - Qing Ying — count: 3
- 作诗 (作詩) 作詩而去之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧齊‧南山 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qi - Nan Shan — count: 2
- 作士 (作士) 汝作士 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 舜典 Yu Shu - Canon of Shun — count: 2
- 君子作 (君子作) 君子作之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧巧言 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Qiao Yan — count: 2
- 作歌 (作歌) 君子作歌 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧谷風之什‧四月 Minor odes of the kingdom - Gu Feng Zhi Shen - Si Yue — count: 2
- 作弃 (作棄) 作弃 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧生民之什‧民勞 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Sheng Min - Min Lu — count: 2