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造

zào

construct

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 告 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

告 sound component

告  Sound component

gào

  

tell

Originally this component was a pictograph of grass, similar to 艸, but later was reanalyzed as the visually similar 告.

Evolution

造 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
造 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
造 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
造 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

造  

zào

construct, build, make, begin; prepare; to make; to build; to manufacture; to invent; to fabricate; to go to; party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement); crop; classifier for crops

Most common words with 造
Freq.
Word
Meaning

造成

to create

创造

to create

制造

to make

造

to make

改造

to transform

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

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Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dzˤ]uʔ

dzawX

zào

make

*(mə-)tsʰˤuʔ-s

tshawH

zào

go to


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 65.0969% of movies

574th most common character in movies

354th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+9020

Shuowen

“造，就也。从辵，告聲。譚長說，造，上士也。艁，古文造从舟。”


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