造 zào

1. zào verb to make; to build; to manufacture
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 制造 (ABC 'zào' 造 v 1; GHC '造' 2; Kroll dzawX '造' 1, p. 585; NCCED 2 '造' 1)
2. zào verb to arrive; to go
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 到 (ABC 'zào' 造 v 3; GHC '造' 1; Kroll tshawX '造' 1, p. 585; NCCED 1 '造' 1)
3. zào verb to pay a visit; to call on
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 造 is similar in meaning to 拜访.
4. zào verb to edit; to collect; to compile
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Writing
   Notes: In this sense 造 is similar in meaning to 撰写 or 汇集.
5. zào verb to attain; to achieve
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Education
   Notes: In an educational or skills acquisition context, in the sense of 成就 (ABC 'zào' 造 v 4; GHC '造' 3; Kroll tshawX '造' 1, p. 585; NCCED 1 '造' 2)
6. zào noun an achievement
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 造 is similar in meaning to 成就.
7. zào noun a crop
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Agriculture
   Notes: Dialect; synonym discussion: in this sense 造 is similar in meaning to 收成 (ABC 'zào' 造 n 2; NCCED 4 '造').
8. zào noun a time; an age
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 造 is similar in meaning to 时代 (ABC 'zào' 造 n 3; GHC '造' 11).
9. zào noun fortune; destiny
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Mythology
   Notes: In the sense of 幸运 (GHC '造' 9)
10. zào adverb suddenly
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In this sense 造 is similar in meaning to 忽然 or 仓卒 (GHC '造' 10).
11. zào verb to educate; to train
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Education
    Notes: (NCCED 1 '造' 3)
12. zào verb to invent
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Technology
    Notes: (ABC 'zào' 造 v 2; NCCED 2 '造' 2)
13. zào noun a party in a lawsuit
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (ABC 'zào' 造 n 1; GHC '造' 7; NCCED 3 '造')
14. zào verb to run wild; to overspend
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Spoken Language
    Notes: (ABC 'zào' 造 v 5)
15. zào bound form indifferently; negligently
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll tshawX '造' 2, p. 585)
16. zào bound form a woman moving to her husband's home
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: After marriage (Kroll tshawX '造' 3, p. 585)
17. zào adjective imaginary
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 虚构 (GHC '造' 4)
18. zào verb to found; to initiate
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 创始 (GHC '造' 5)
19. zào verb to contain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 容纳 (GHC '造' 6)

Contained in

• 修造厂(修造廠) repair workshop
• 伪造(偽造) to forge; to fake; to counterfeit
• 天造地设(天造地設) made by Heaven and arranged by Earth; ideal; perfect; (of a match) made in heaven
• 造岩矿物(造岩礦物) rock-forming mineral
• 生病造热(生病造熱) it brings fever to his body
• 人造天体(人造天體) artificial satellite
• 变造币(變造幣) illegally modified or altered currency
• 酿造(釀造) to brew; to make (wine, vinegar, soybean paste etc) by fermentation
• 造山作用 orogeny
• 造字 to form characters
• 再造手术(再造手術) reconstructive surgery
• 造形 to model
• 中国制造(中國製造) made in China
• 末造 final phase
• 制造商(製造商) manufacturer
• 造就 to bring up; to train
• 前清末造 the final years of the Qing dynasty
• 人造黄油(人造黃油) margarine
• 创造主(創造主) Creator
• 再造 to be reborn; to be regenerated ; to reinstate; to reestablish; to restore; to recycle
• 伪造者(偽造者) forger
• 监造(監造) workshop supervision
• 植树造林(植樹造林) afforestation
• 造成 to create; to cause
• 造福 to benefit
• 基因改造 genetic modification (GM)
• 人造牛油 margarine
• 造士 an accomplished scholar
• 北京汽车制造厂有限公司(北京汽車製造廠有限公司) Beijing Automobile Works (BAW)
• 改造 to change; to alter; to transform
• 建造 to construct; to build
• 创造者(創造者) creator
• 瞎编乱造(瞎編亂造) random lies and falsehoods
• 营造商(營造商) builder; contractor
• 新造 newly made
• 戛戛独造(戛戛獨造) creative; original
• 造型 to model; to shape
• 臆造 an inventor; a forger
• 构造(構造) structure; composition
• 有创造力(有創造力) ingenious; creative
• 向壁虚造(向壁虛造) facing a wall, an imaginary construction; baseless fabrication
• 矫揉造作(矯揉造作) pretension; affectation; putting on artificial airs
• 人造 man-made; artificial; synthetic
• 造物 fate ; a force that creates all things
• 游民改造(遊民改造) rehabilitation of displaced persons
• 板块构造(板塊構造) plate tectonics
• 创造性(創造性) creativity
• 凹造型 to strike a pose
• 闭门造车(閉門造車) to build a cart behind closed doors; to be overly subjective and disregard the outside world

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• 卷五十三　志第五:　　曆二 Volume 53 Treatises 6: Calendar 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 42
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Collocations

• 造父 (造父) 造父之術非馭也 — Guanzi 管子, 形勢第二 Chapter 2: Circumstances — count: 51
• 造舟 (造舟) 造舟為梁 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧大明 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Da Ming — count: 4
• 造都邑 (造都邑) 造都邑之封域者亦如之 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 4
• 造言 (造言) 七曰造言之刑 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 3
• 近亲造 (近親造) 近親造怨 — Guanzi 管子, 形勢第二 Chapter 2: Circumstances — count: 3
• 造冰 (造冰) 君設大盤造冰焉 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites — count: 3
• 造怨 (造怨) 近親造怨 — Guanzi 管子, 形勢第二 Chapter 2: Circumstances — count: 3
• 不能造 (不能造) 不能造朝 — Mencius 孟子, 公孫丑下 Gong Sun Chou II — count: 3
• 国造 (國造) 而不以其國造難生患 — Guanzi 管子, 樞言第十二 Chapter 12: Pivotal Words — count: 2
• 遂造 (遂造) 遂造公庭求復者曰 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷六 復恩 Chapter 6: Repaying Kindness — count: 2