作 zuò

1. zuò verb to do
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 4, p. 636; Unihan '作')
2. 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').
3. zuò verb to start
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 2, p. 636)
4. zuò noun a writing; a work
   Domain: Art 艺术
   Notes: (Unihan '作')
5. zuò verb to dress as; to be disguised as
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Clothing
   
6. zuō verb to create; to make
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 3, p. 636; Unihan '作')
7. zuō verb a workshop
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 作 is synonymous with 作坊 or 工场 in this sense.
8. 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').
9. 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)
10. zuò verb to be aroused
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 1a, p. 636)
11. zuò noun activity; action; undertaking
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 4a, p. 636)
12. zuò verb to regard as
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 5, p. 636)

Contained in

• 八小时工作制(八小時工作制) eight-hour working day
• 核相互作用 nuclear interaction
• 装腔作态(裝腔作態) to bluff; to swagger
• 多工作业(多工作業) multitasking
• 犯上作乱(犯上作亂) to rebel against the emperor
• 作呕(作嘔) to feel sick; to feel nauseous; to feel disgusted
• 工作许可(工作許可) a work permit
• 翻作 to compose; to write words to a tune
• 农业生产合作社(農業生產合作社) agricultural producers' cooperative
• 农作(農作) cultivation of fields; to do farm work
• 作奸 to be a traitor
• 作践(作踐) to ill-use; to humiliate; to degrade; to ruin
• 反射作用 reflex; reflection
• 中国左翼作家联盟(中國左翼作家聯盟) the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930
• 当作(當作) to treat as; to regard as
• 统一战线工作部(統一戰線工作部) United Front Work Department of CPC Central Committee (UFWD)
• 半日工作 part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon
• 混作 mixed cropping (i.e. growing two crops together)
• 作弄 to tease; to play tricks on
• 酵解作用 zymolysis
• 触媒作用(觸媒作用) catalysis
• 操作者 operator
• 农业合作化(農業合作化) collectivization of agriculture (in Marxist theory)
• 结束工作(結束工作) to finish work
• 趋化作用(趨化作用) chemotaxis (movement of leukocytes under chemical stimulus)
• 工作台(工作檯) workbench; work station
• 力作 to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc); a masterpiece
• 作业(作業) work; task; operation ; homework ; to sin ; to attain; to reach a level
• 弄虚作假(弄虛作假) to practice fraud; by trickery
• 可作 can be used for
• 作倡 to perform; to act; to play a musical instrument
• 比作 to liken to; to compare to
• 一鼓作气(一鼓作氣) in a spurt of energy
• 作答 to answer; to respond
• 弱作用力 the weak force (in particle physics)
• 创作(創作) to create; to produce; to write ; creative work; creation
• 常作 to constantly do
• 日常工作 routine
• 政治工作 political work
• 作派 gestures in opera ; affected
• 亦作 also written as
• 作废(作廢) to discard; to cancel; to delete; to nullify ; to be invalid
• 从中作梗(從中作梗) to obstruct from within
• 作务(作務) to work; to serve
• 性工作 employment as sex worker; prostitution
• 异化作用(異化作用) catabolism; metabolic breaking down and waste disposal; dissimilation
• 工作 work ; to do work

Also contained in

对外贸易经济合作部 、 作命内史 、 亚太经济合作组织 、 作协

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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
• 作士 (作士) 汝作士 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 舜典 Yu Shu - Canon of Shun — count: 2
• 雅作 (雅作) 而變風變雅作矣 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 2
• 作乂 (作乂) 萬邦作乂 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 益稷 Yu Shu - Yi and Ji — 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
• 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