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- (bound form) worker
- (bound form) workshop
- (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
- to do; to engage in
- to write; to compose
- to pretend; to feign
- to regard as; to consider to be
- to be; to act the part of
- to feel (itchy, nauseous etc)
- writings; works
- to show off (loanword, from English "show")
- to grandstand
- to perform in a stage show
- your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific)
- to erupt
- to begin abruptly
Trad. 擬作
- to write in the style of some author
- to write as if from the mouth of sb
- a pastiche
- to bestir oneself
- to pull oneself together
- to cheer up
- to uplift
- to stimulate
Trad. 運作
- to operate
- operations
- workings
- activities (usu. of an organization)
- thread (computing)
- first author (of an academic paper) (abbr. for 第一作者[di4 yi1 zuo4 zhe3])
Trad. 習作
- (writing, drawing, calligraphy etc) to apply oneself to producing practice pieces
- a practice piece; an exercise
- to work
- (of a machine) to operate
- job
- work
- task
- CL:個|个[ge4],份[fen4],項|项[xiang4]
- to counterfeit
- to falsify
- to cheat
- to defraud
- fraudulent
- to behave affectedly
- to put out
- to come up with
- to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc)
- to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc)
- to draw (conclusion)
- to deliver (speech, judgment)
- to devise (explanation)
- to extract
- (of a ghost) to make strange things happen
- to act up
- to act behind the scenes
- to make mischief
- odd
- to misbehave (euphemism for having sex)
Trad. 作業
- school assignment
- homework
- work
- task
- operation
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- to operate
Trad. 記作
- (math.) to be written using the following notation
- (accounting) to be recorded as (income, an expense etc)
Trad. 作為
- one's conduct
- deed
- activity
- accomplishment
- achievement
- to act as
- as (in the capacity of)
- qua
- to view as
- to look upon (sth as)
- to take sth to be
- to act on; to affect
- action; function; activity
- impact; result; effect
- purpose; intent
- (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用[yi4 zhi4 zuo4 yong4], inhibition
- Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4], academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
Trad. 小動作
- bad habit (e.g. nose-picking)
- petty maneuver
- dirty trick
- gamesmanship
- Hezuo, a county-level city in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[Gan1 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu
- cooperative
- workers' or agricultural producers' cooperative etc
- seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame
Trad. 強作用
- strong interaction (governing hadrons in nuclear physics)
- Jiaozuo, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省[He2 nan2 Sheng3]
- (physics) reaction
- (fig.) backlash; unintended consequence
Trad. 吳作棟
- Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
Trad. 傅作義
- Fu Zuoyi (1895–1974), Chinese general and politician, Nationalist commander who negotiated the peaceful surrender of Beiping (Beijing) to the Communists in 1949, and later held senior posts in the PRC government
- (mining) face (as in coalface 採煤工作面|采煤工作面[cai3 mei2 gong1 zuo4 mian4])
- (machining) working surface (of a workpiece)
- to have an effect
- to play a role
- to be operative
- to work
- to function
Trad. 張作霖
- Zhang Zuolin (c. 1873-1928), warlord of Manchuria 1916-1928