作为

作為traditional

HSK 4#405 by frequencyradical 亻

zuò wéi["p","v"]

to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be; one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement

Examples

他以他的工作为傲。

He takes pride in his work.

以前人们用烟作为联络信号。

Back then, people communicated using smoke signals.

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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.