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

• 饮酒作乐(飲酒作樂) drinking party; to go on a binge; to paint the town red
• 作主 to decide; to support
• 合作社 cooperative; workers' or agricultural producers' cooperative etc
• 工作队(工作隊) a working group; a task force
• 作证(作證) to bear witness; to testify
• 作死 to court disaster
• 仵作 coroner (old)
• 半日工作 part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon
• 命名作业(命名作業) naming task
• 稻作 rice cultivation
• 蒸腾作用(蒸騰作用) transpiration
• 可操作的艺术(可操作的藝術) the art of the possible (Bismarck on politics)
• 岛国动作片(島國動作片) euphemism for Japanese action movie
• 工作契约(工作契約) work agreement
• 始作俑者 the first person to bury funerary dolls; the originator of an evil practice
• 作痛 to ache
• 创作(創作) to create; to produce; to write ; creative work; creation
• 工作表 worksheet
• 妄作 rash conduct
• 反作用力 opposing force
• 胡行乱作(胡行亂作) do not go against law and order
• 二一添作五 one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning); to share fairly between two parties
• 作奸犯科 do evil and break the rules
• 无所作为(無所作為) to accomplish nothing
• 光化作用 photochemical effect; photosynthesis; photolysis
• 触媒作用(觸媒作用) catalysis
• 相互作用 to interact; interaction; interplay
• 装作(裝作) to pretend; to feign; to act a part
• 当作(當作) to treat as; to regard as
• 工作报告(工作報告) working report; operating report
• 著作 to write ; literary work; book; article; writings
• 科技工作者 worker in science and technology
• 亦作 also written as
• 装聋作哑(裝聾作啞) to play deaf-mute
• 慢动作(慢動作) slow motion
• 炒作 to hype; to promote (in the media)
• 工作坊 a workshop
• 杰作(傑作) a masterpiece
• 写作(寫作) writing
• 正常工作 normal operation; proper functioning
• 夜作 to do at night
• 作东(作東) to host (a dinner); to treat; to pick up the check
• 试作(試作) to attempt; test run
• 造山作用 orogeny
• 故作端庄(故作端莊) artificial show of seriousness; to pretend to be solemn
• 创作力(創作力) originality
• 并肩作战(並肩作戰) doing battle shoulder-to-shoulder
• 上海合作组织(上海合作組織) SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation)

Also contained in

对外贸易经济合作部 、 网路作业系统 、 拟作

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
• 《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
• 卷十八 Scroll 18 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
• 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
• 作诗 (作詩) 作詩而去之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧齊‧南山 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qi - Nan Shan — count: 2
• 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
• 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