作

Information about character(s)

Radical: 人
Radical Strokes: 2
Additional Strokes: 5
Total Strokes: 7

Pronunciation

Pinyin: zuò, zuō, zuó
Cantonese: zok3
JapaneseKun: TSUKURU TSUKURI NASU
JapaneseOn: SAKU SA
Korean: CAK CWU
Vietnamese: tác

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: make; work; compose, write; act, perform

CE-Dict: to do/to grow/to write or compose/to pretend/to regard as/to feel/writings or works

Soothill: To make, do, act, be; arise.

English-Chinse-English Dictionary of Buddhist terms (Stardict): (1) To make, to create, to do, to establish. To write literature, compose music, create works of art, etc. To establish, to put forth, to finish. In Sanskrit, i^hate, karoti. (2) Function, activity (karman, kriya^). (3) That which has been made, formed or created, especially from conditions (krta^-katva, krta^). That (esp. afflictions) which is created from discrimination, as opposed to that which is spontaneously 任運 or innately arisen 俱生. 〔二障義 HPC 1.801c22〕(4) Act, deed, conduct (karman). (5) Occupation, vocation. (6) The person who makes (something). (7) Outwardly expressed activity. (8) One of the ten such-likes taught in the Lotus Sutra. 【參照: 十如是】

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.to get up; to rise
2.to make; to do
3.to write; to compose
4.writings; work
5.to pretend; to affect
6.to regard as; to treat as; to take...for
7.to act; to be

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: act as; do; make; pretend; regard as; writings
【法】 perpetrate

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: act as; do; make; pretend; regard as; be delivered of; fashion

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《人部》作起也。从人从乍。

康熙字典文字版 【子集中】【人字部】作
〔古文〕胙𢓓【唐韻】則洛切【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】卽各切，𠀤臧入聲。興起也。【易·乾卦】聖人作而萬物覩。【書·堯典】平秩東作。　又振也。【書·康誥】作新民。　又造也。【禮·樂記】作者之謂聖。【詩·鄘風】定之方中，作于楚宮。　又爲也。【詩·鄭風】敝予又改作兮。　又始也。【詩·魯頌】思馬斯作。　又坐作。【周禮·夏官】大司馬敎坐作進退之節。　又將作，秦官名。【前漢·百官表】秩二千石，掌宮室。　又作猶斮也。【禮·內則】魚曰作之。【註】謂削其鱗。　又汨作，逸書篇名。　又姓。漢涿郡太守作顯。　又與詛同。怨謗也。【詩·大雅】侯作侯祝。　又【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】𠀤子賀切，音佐。【後漢·廉范傳】廉叔度，來何暮，不禁火，民夜作，昔無襦，今五袴。【韓愈詩】非閣復非船，可居兼可過。君去問方橋，方橋如此作。今方音作讀佐。俗用做。　又【韻補】叶總古切，音阻。【韓愈·處州孔子廟𥓓】惟此廟學，鄴侯所作。厥初庳下，神不以宇。　又叶子悉切，音卽。【擊壤歌】日出而作，日入而息。【𨻰琳·客難】太王築室，百堵俱作。西伯營臺，功不浹日。
考證：〔【易·乾卦】聖人作而萬物睹。〕　謹照原文睹改覩。　〔【詩·邶風】定之方中，作于楚宮。〕　謹照原文邶風改鄘風。

朱芾煌:法相辭典 瑜伽十三卷十八頁雲：雲何作？謂行蘊。
二解　集論五卷四頁雲：作者：謂起造諸業，令其現行。

Buddhism words and phrases create

Japanese Places Saku (loc)

CF-Dict: faire/apparaître/rédiger/ouvrage/oeuvre/considérer comme

Han-De-Dict: etw./jdn. ansehen, etw. (für jdn.) nehmen, machen, tun (u.E.) (V)