zuò, zuō
make
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 乍 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤak | tsak | zuò | do, work |
*[ts]ˤak-s | tsuH | zuò | do, work |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 98.3982% of movies
124th most common character in movies
49th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+4F5C |
Shuowen | “作,起也。从人,从乍。” |
Sources
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