作 zuō

1. zuò verb to do
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 4; 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; Unihan '作').
3. zuò verb to start
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 2)
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 服装
   
6. zuō verb to create / to make
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 3; 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; 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; Shuo Wen)
10. zuò verb to be aroused
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 1a)
11. zuò noun activity / action / undertaking
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: FGS translation standard: Activity (Kroll 2015 '作' 4a).
12. zuò verb to regard as
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '作' 5).

Contained in

• 作用 to play a role ; action / activity / actions / use
• 工作 work ; to do work
• 合作 to cooperate / to collaborate
• 动作(動作) movement / motion / action ; posture / situation ; an activity
• 著作权(著作權) copyright
• 作品 works (of art)
• 作为(作為) conduct / actions ; as
• 工作组(工作組) work team / working group / task force
• 创作(創作) to create / to produce / to write ; creative work / creation
• 操作 to operate / to handle / to manipulate ; to administer
• 协作(協作) collaboration / cooperation / coordination
• 当作(當作) to treat as / to regard as
• 运作(運作) operation
• 作废(作廢) to discard / to cancel / to delete / to nullify ; to be invalid
• 振作有为(振作有為) someone with ability and accomplishment
• 制作(製作) to make / to manufacture
• 叫作 to call
• 政治工作 political work
• 整作 to make right
• 作业(作業) work / task / operation ; homework ; to sin ; to attain / to reach a level
• 作料 condiments
• 作家 author / writer ; an adept / an expert ; to manage a household
• 作文 composition / essay
• 作者 author / writer / composer
• 农作物(農作物) crops
• 写作(寫作) writing
• 作风(作風) style / way
• 作物 a crop
• 作战(作戰) to combat / to battle / to wage war
• 操作数(操作數) operand
• 副作用 side effect
• 看作 to look upon as / to regard as
• 弄虚作假(弄虛作假) to practice fraud / by trickery
• 无所作为(無所作為) to accomplish nothing
• 以身作则(以身作則) to set an example for others
• 作案 to commit a crime
• 作法 method of doing something / modus operandi
• 作主 to decide / to support
• 称作(稱作) to call or give something a name
• 社会工作(社會工作) social work
• 胡作非为(胡作非為) to run amok
• 作揖 to bow with hands held in front
• 装模作样(裝模作樣) to put on an act
• 装腔作势(裝腔作勢) to be pretentious / to strike a pose
• 工作者 a worker
• 作息 to work and rest

Also contained in

操作系统 、 著作 、 杰作 、 工作流 、 工作站

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 魏紀 Records of the Wei Bamboo Annals 竹書紀年 — count: 186
• 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: 157
• 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
• 《太史公自序》 Autobiographical Afterword of the Grand Historian Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — 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