作

#263 by frequency

zuò

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

zuō

(bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)

Examples

她的写作很好。

Her writing is very good.

请你补交作业。

Please submit the homework.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.