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

• 叫作 to call
• 作客 to live somewhere as a visitor; to stay with somebody as a guest; to sojourn
• 发作性嗜睡病(發作性嗜睡病) narcolepsy
• 烃化作用(烴化作用) alkylation
• 作势(作勢) to adopt an attitude; to strike a posture
• 日出而作，日入而息 to get up at sunrise and work until sunset; to lead a plain and hardworking life
• 一鼓作气(一鼓作氣) in a spurt of energy
• 农作物(農作物) crops
• 石作 masonry workshop
• 作奸 to be a traitor
• 作主 to decide; to support
• 无恶不作(無惡不作) not to shrink from any crime; to commit any imaginable misdeed
• 作者未详(作者未詳) anonymous author
• 弄虚作假(弄虛作假) to practice fraud; by trickery
• 处女作(處女作) first publication; maiden work
• 假作 to pretend
• 作者不详(作者不詳) anonymous author
• 欧洲安全和合作组织(歐洲安全和合作組織) Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
• 制作者(製作者) producer; maker; creator
• 合作方 (business) partner
• 副作用 side effect
• 合作伙伴 cooperative partner
• 作奸犯科 do evil and break the rules
• 振作 to stir up; to stimulate ; to uplift
• 作画(作畫) to paint
• 弱作用 weak interaction
• 工作日 workday; working day; weekday
• 乱作决定(亂作決定) to make arbitrary decisions
• 遗作(遺作) posthumous work
• 唤作(喚作) to be called; to be known as
• 作倡 to perform; to act; to play a musical instrument
• 打拱作揖 to bow respectfully with clasped hands; to beg humbly
• 作答 to answer; to respond
• 合作无间(合作無間) to collaborate without barriers
• 仅作参考(僅作參考) for reference only
• 劳资合作(勞資合作) cooperation of labor and capitalists
• 歌舞作乐(歌舞作樂) to sing and dance for entertainment
• 制作商(製作商) maker; manufacturer
• 农业合作化(農業合作化) collectivization of agriculture (in Marxist theory)
• 作恶(作惡) to do evil
• 作死 to court disaster
• 装腔作态(裝腔作態) to bluff; to swagger
• 代作蹇修 act as a matchmaker
• 合作 to cooperate; to collaborate
• 原作版 Urtext edition
• 认作(認作) to regard as; to view; to consider something as; to treat as

Also contained in

移动操作系统 、 难作能作 、 无作戒 、 中国作协 、 将作院

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
• 《太史公自序》 Autobiographical Afterword of the Grand Historian Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 142
• 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — 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
• 雅作 (雅作) 而變風變雅作矣 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — 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
• 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
• 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
• 万邦作 (萬邦作) 萬邦作孚 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧文王 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Wen Wang — count: 2