漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
作: make, production
Also: prepare, build
JLPT N47 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
- 亻person(meaning)
- 乍(sound)
亻 carries the meaning · 乍 gives the sound
7 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
サクsaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 作成するさくせいするproduce
- 試作するしさくするmake a prototype
- 作戦さくせんstrategy
- 作曲家さっきょくかcomposer
- 作曲するさっきょくするcompose
サsa · on'yomi
- 操作するそうさするoperate
- 作業するさぎょうするwork [v.i.]
- 動作どうさmovements
つくるtsukuru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 作るつくるmake
- 形作るかたちづくるform [v.t.]
Also read つくり, -づくり, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 person, as 亻 (meaning) + 乍 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 作 (rev. 93879531), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side作 make · 亻
vs昨 yesterday · 日In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zuò
Same form: 作 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 作 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 作 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zuò most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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