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

• 造谣生事(造謠生事) to start rumours and create trouble
• 创造性(創造性) creativity
• 造化 Nature ; good luck
• 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)
• 创造主(創造主) Creator
• 向壁虚造(向壁虛造) facing a wall, an imaginary construction; baseless fabrication
• 营造(營造) to build; to construct; to make
• 造像 a statue; a sculpture
• 酿造(釀造) to brew; to make (wine, vinegar, soybean paste etc) by fermentation
• 恩同再造 your favor amounts to being given a new lease on life
• 人造板 engineered wood
• 碰撞造山 collisional orogeny; mountain building as a result of continents colliding
• 造成问题(造成問題) to create an issue; to cause a problem
• 造景 landscaping
• 造型蛋糕 custom-designed cake (e.g. cake shaped like a guitar, camera or cartoon character)
• 造句 to make a sentence
• 人造语言(人造語言) artificial language; constructed language
• 创造论(創造論) creationism
• 造形 to model
• 生病造热(生病造熱) it brings fever to his body
• 登峰造极(登峰造極) to climb to great heights in extreme achievements
• 铸造(鑄造) to cast pour metal
• 造血 to make blood (function of bone marrow)
• 有创造力(有創造力) ingenious; creative
• 制造业者(製造業者) manufacturer
• 重新造林 reforestation
• 酿造学(釀造學) zymurgy
• 闭门造车(閉門造車) to build a cart behind closed doors; to be overly subjective and disregard the outside world
• 戛戛独造(戛戛獨造) creative; original
• 造岩矿物(造岩礦物) rock-forming mineral
• 营造商(營造商) builder; contractor
• 制造商(製造商) manufacturer
• 造型 to model; to shape
• 神造论(神造論) creationism
• 救人一命胜造七级浮屠(救人一命勝造七級浮屠) saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda
• 人造天体(人造天體) artificial satellite
• 造船所 shipyard
• 塑造 to model
• 臆造 an inventor; a forger
• 用户创造内容(用戶創造內容) user-generated content (of a website)
• 纪录创造者(紀錄創造者) record setter; record holder
• 造诣(造詣) academic or artistic attainments; to visit with somebody; to call on sb
• 造就 to bring up; to train
• 发明创造(發明創造) to invent and innovate; inventions and innovations
• 人造地球卫星(人造地球衛星) a man-made earth satellite
• 摆造型(擺造型) to pose (for a picture)
• 胡编乱造(胡編亂造) to concoct a cock-and-bull story; to make things up
• 修造厂(修造廠) repair workshop

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• 卷一百九十七 志第一百五十 兵十一 Volume 197 Treatises 150: Military 11 History of Song 宋史 — count: 53
• 卷一百六十五 列傳第一百十五: 韋夏卿 王正雅 柳公綽 崔玄亮 溫造 郭承嘏 殷侑 徐晦 Volume 165 Biographies 115: Wei Xiaqing, Wang Zhengya, Liu Gongchao, Cui Xuanliang, Wen Zao, Guo Chenggu, Yin You, Xu Hui Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 45
• 卷十九 志第九 樂一 Volume 19 Treatises 9: Music 1 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 44
• 卷五十三　志第五:　　曆二 Volume 53 Treatises 6: Calendar 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 42
• 卷一百八十一 志第一百三十四 食貨下三 Volume 181 Treatises 134: Finance and Economics 2c History of Song 宋史 — count: 34
• 卷二十 志第十 樂二 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Music 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 33
• 卷八十二 志第五十八 食貨六 Volume 82 Treatises 58: Finance and Economics 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 32
• 卷八十二 志第三十五 律曆十五 Volume 82 Treatises 35: Measures and Calendar 15 History of Song 宋史 — count: 31
• 卷九十一　　　　列傳第十六 溫皇甫二李姜崔 Volume 91 Biographies 16: Wen, Huang, Fu, Er, Li, Jiang, Cui New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 30
• 卷114 釋老志十 Volume 114: Treatise 10 - Buddhism and Daoism Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 26

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
• 近亲造 (近親造) 近親造怨 — Guanzi 管子, 形勢第二 Chapter 2: Circumstances — count: 3
• 造怨 (造怨) 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
• 不能造 (不能造) 不能造朝 — Mencius 孟子, 公孫丑下 Gong Sun Chou II — count: 3
• 造周 (造周) 文王所以造周 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 2
• 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