作 zuò
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verb
to do
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 4; Unihan '作') -
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; Unihan '作'). -
verb
to start
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 2) -
noun
a writing / a work
Domain: Art 艺术
Notes: (Unihan '作') -
verb
to dress as / to be disguised as
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Clothing
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verb
to create / to make
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 3; Unihan '作') -
verb
a workshop
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 作 is synonymous with 作坊 or 工场 in this sense. -
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; Unihan '作'). -
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; Shuo Wen) -
verb
to be aroused
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 1a) -
noun
activity / action / undertaking
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: FGS translation standard: Activity (Kroll 2015 '作' 4a). -
verb
to regard as
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 5).
Contained in
- 作业环境(作業環境) operating environment
- 作证(作證) to bear witness / to testify ; to testify
- 吞噬作用 phagocytosis (ingesting and destroying foreign matter)
- 无所作为(無所作為) to accomplish nothing
- 多工运作(多工運作) multithreading
- 伪作(偽作) to pretend / to fake ; a fake / a counterfeit
- 发作性嗜睡病(發作性嗜睡病) narcolepsy
- 劳资合作(勞資合作) cooperation of labor and capitalists
- 作礼(作禮) to salute / to greet / to bow to
- 合作农场(合作農場) collective farm
- 犯上作乱(犯上作亂) to rebel against the emperor
- 仅作参考(僅作參考) for reference only
- 劳作(勞作) to do work labor ; handicrafts
- 结束工作(結束工作) to finish work
- 看作 to look upon as / to regard as
- 做准备工作(做準備工作) to make preparations
- 合作无间(合作無間) to collaborate without barriers
- 操作环境(操作環境) operating environment
- 处女作(處女作) first publication / maiden work
- 相互作用 to interact / interaction / interplay
- 不作为(不作為) nonfeasance / omission (law)
- 分解作用 decomposition
- 蒸腾作用(蒸騰作用) transpiration
- 弱作用 weak interaction
- 假动作(假動作) fake move or pass / feint
- 油料作物 oil crop (rape, peanut, soy, sesame etc) / oil-bearing crop
- 整作 to make right
- 天作之合 a match made in heaven
- 作用理论(作用理論) interactive theory
- 故作 to pretend / to feign
- 东作(東作) spring plowing
- 工作记忆(工作記憶) working memory
- 可操作的艺术(可操作的藝術) the art of the possible (Bismarck on politics)
- 作案 to commit a crime
- 作弄 to tease / to play tricks on
- 名作 masterpiece / famous work
- 作手 writer / expert
- 作件 workpiece
- 套作 intercropping / growing several crops together
- 阴谋作乱(陰謀作亂) to plot a revolt
- 工作队(工作隊) a working group / a task force
- 作古 to die / to pass away
- 夜作 to do at night
Also contained in
一喝不作一喝用 、 视窗操作系统 、 难作能作 、 佳作 、 操作系统 、 诸恶莫作 、 作意 、 经典著作
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 魏紀 Records of the Wei Bamboo Annals 竹書紀年 — count: 186
- 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: 157
- 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
- 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 142
- 卷十八 Scroll 18 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
- 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
- 雅作 (雅作) 而變風變雅作矣 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 2
- 并作 (併作) 並作雍雍 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧生民之什‧卷阿 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Sheng Min - Juan A — 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
- 甫作 (甫作) 吉甫作誦 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧崧高 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Song Gao — count: 2