Zi:作

作 [zuò] do; 制作 make; 工作 work; 作业 homework; 作用 action/function/effect; 发作 break out, erupt, spring up [zuō] 作坊 workshop; (HDZ:) … [zuó] (作兴, …) [zǔ] 詛 [zhà] 詐

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The Shuōwén Seal form of 作 zuò ‘arise/make’ combines 亻(人 rén) ‘person’, and 乍(𠆦) zhà (phonosemantic); formerly wr. 乍, and also 迮 cf. 乍.
    Note: SW glosses both 作 and 迮 with 起 qǐ ‘rise/raise/stir/start up’ (起来); the primary meaning 作 zuò ‘make/made; create; write/written’ is evident in SW usage in the glosses of other characters.
    Note: 作 zuò ‘suddenly spring/rise up; rise/raise/produce; begin/start; stand up; rouse/exert; happen/appear; (do manual) work; make; create; institute/establish; foster (achievements); take charge of, treat/serve as; work/employ (labor); undertaking/matter; measure/step/method; work/product; etc.’ (HDZ).
    Compare: 工作起来 ‘start to work’; 发作 fāzuò, 大作 dàzuò ‘break out, spring/flare up; erupt’, 狂风大作 ‘a fierce gale sprang up’, 兴风作浪 ‘stir up trouble’.
    Note: The two characters 作/做 zuò ‘do/make’ are sometimes used interchangeably; 作 is the older form, today seen in more formal/abstract usage, while 做 is a more recent creation, used in colloquial/concrete contexts (GFC); 作 zuò has several less common readings not applicable to 做 zuò; for more, cf. 做.
    HDZ: 作 : zuò : (甲) 乍; 产生, 兴起 (cf. 迮); 始; 起, 起立; 振作; 发生, 表现出; 劳动, 工作 (作工, 作田, 劳作, 作息); 建造, 制作; 创作; 制定; 培育, 造就; 担任, 充当, 当作; 役使; 事情, 事业; 措施, 办法; 作品; 及; 则; 象, 似; 度过; (副词) 次; 詛 (zǔ): 诅咒; 詐 (zhà): 欺骗; 斮: 削; (姓) • zuō : 工场, 作坊; 从事或进行某种活动 (作揖, 作孽, 作弄, 作死, 自作自受) • zuó : (作兴, 作料, 作践)
    GFC: 作 : zuò : … ⑴ 通常读 zuò; 读 zuō, 指手工业工场 (作坊); ⑵ 跟 ‘做’ 不同; 在抽象意义的词语､书面语色彩较浓的词语, 特别是成语里, 多用 ‘作’ (作罢, 作对, 作废, 作怪, 作乱, 作战, 装模作样, 忸怩作态); 后面是双音节动词时, 一般也用 ‘作’ (作调查, 作处理); 在表示具体东西的制造､从事具体的活动､口语色彩较浓的词语里, 多用 ‘做’ (做桌子, 做药材, 做饭, 做买卖, 做活儿, 做梦)
►references: Guǎngyùn:370.22,419.19,506.11; Wieger:10f; Henshall:127; Karlgren:AD1151,GSR806l; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.134.6; Mathews:6780; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:99.07; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:052.1.08; EDOC:1
►components: 亻乍
►Cantonese: jok-
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