漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
造: create, make
Also: structure, physique
⻌ carries the meaning · 告 is drawn in
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
ゾウzou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 造花ぞうかartificial flowers
- 造船ぞうせんshipbuilding
- 構造こうぞうstructure, construction
- 木造もくぞうwooden, made of wood
- 人造湖じんぞうこartificial lake
- 創造するそうぞうするcreate
- 改造するかいぞうするremodel
- 製造するせいぞうするmanufacture, produce
つくるtsukuru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 造るつくるmake, create, manufacture
-づくり-zukuri · kun'yomi
- 酒造りさけづくりsake brewing
Also read つくり, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辵 to walk (meaning) + 屮 (sound) + 口 (meaning)
Unclear. Generally considered to be unrelated to 告 in its original form.
Source: Wiktionary, 造 (rev. 92930062), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
Connections
Also built on revelation (告)
Also read ゾウ
11 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zào
Same form: 造 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 造 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 造 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zào most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.