作

to do, make; work

No. 54 most used

How it's built

• 亻person
• 乍suddenlyGives the sound: zhà

A way to remember it

A person (亻) suddenly (乍) busy: making something.

Words

• 工作

  gōng zuò

  to work; (of a machine) to operate; job
• 作为

  zuò wéi

  one's conduct; deed; activity
• 合作

  hé zuò

  to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together
• 作品

  zuò pǐn

  work (of art); opus; CL:部,篇
• 制作

  zhì zuò

  to make; to manufacture
• 动作

  dòng zuò

  movement; motion; action; to act; to move

Sentences

• 不知作者在说什么。

  bù zhī zuò zhě zài shuō shén me

  It is not clear what the writer is trying to say.
• 他在一所中学工作。

  tā zài yì suǒ zhōng xué gōng zuò

  He works in a secondary school.
• 他想成为一名作家。

  tā xiǎng chéng wéi yì míng zuò jiā

  He wants to become a writer.
• 他有很多工作要做。

  tā yǒu hěn duō gōng zuò yào zuò

  He had a lot of work to do.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.