Character Details
| make/do (to) | Ascii: — | w109 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 作 | zuò | zhooh:uh | 4 | 亻 (person) + 乍 (sudden) → make; do | 作 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Mr. T's favorite magazine is Do it Yourself. But he's a purist: he only uses saws, no power tools. | ||||||||||
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| - We have a lot of work to do | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 9 - 人 | rén | person | person | person shape | 人 从 们 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 亻 (person) + 乍 (sudden) → make; do | 亻 (person) | 乍 (phonetic) | phonetic from 乍 | ||||||||