Memory phrase for the character: 作

作



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Meaning

to make something, to write or compose, to pretend, to feel

Pronunciation

 zuò

Explanation

 Left: a person 亻, right: suddenly, unexpectedly 乍 (The saw 乍 fells [the tree] suddenly.)

Mnemonic
 
The person has a saw to make something.

Radicals

亻 personThis radical is understood as an identical variant of "person" 人, and shows a person who stands with the legs apart. - This radical has several variation, i.e. a lying person , a sitting 匕 person.
乍 suddenly, for the first timeThe saw has its handle ノ at the upper left.
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 Vocabulary

作为 zuò wéi  one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
看作 kàn zuò  look upon as; regard as
作战 zuò zhàn  combat; to fight
制作 zhì zuò  to make; to manufacture
合作社 hé zuò shè  cooperative; workers' or agricultural producers' cooperative etc
写作 xiě zuò  writing; written works
农作物 nóng zuò wù  (farm) crops
协作 xié zuò  cooperation; coordination
轮作 lún zuò  rotation of crops (to preserve fertility of soil)
耕作 gēng zuò  farming
作坊 zuō fang  workshop (of artisan)
作坊 zuō fang  

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