IDENTITY
作zuòto do; to make; work
HSK 1Top 50
CORE MEANING
to do; to make; work
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to do; to makeHSK1
- 2.workHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 亻person radical (rén)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰亻乍
- person
- gives the sound zuò (historical)
USAGE
Common words
工作gōngzuòwork; job
作业zuòyèhomework
作用zuòyòngeffect
Graded examples
他作业写完了。Tā zuòyè xiěwán le.HSK2
He finished his homework.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 做
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A person (亻) suddenly (乍) rising to act — doing, making.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #50
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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