作
make; work; production; prepare; build
7 strokes. Taught in grade 2. Newspaper frequency rank 103.
Readings
- サク (on reading): 作品 (さくひん) work (e.g. book, film, painting, composition); 本作 (ほんさく) this piece
- つくる (kun reading): 作る (つくる) to make; 形作る (かたちづくる) to form
- サ (on reading): 作業 (さぎょう) work; 操作 (そうさ) operation
- つくり (kun reading): 作り (つくり) making; 作り方 (つくりかた) style of building
- づくり (kun reading)
- Read as a whole word: 矢作 (やはぎ) fletcher; 作物所 (つくもどころ) palace workshop responsible for making furnishings, etc. (Heian period)
Components
- 亻
- 乍
- ノ radical slash, katakana no
- 一 radical one
- ｜ radical vertical stroke
- 乞 radical beg
- ⺅ radical person, left-side form of 人
Kanji containing 作
- 筰 bamboo rope
Words using 作
- 作品 (さくひん) work (e.g. book, film, painting, composition)
- 本作 (ほんさく) this piece
- 制作 (せいさく) work (film, book)
- 作 (さく) work (e.g. of art)
- 製作 (せいさく) manufacture
- 作る (つくる) to make
- 形作る (かたちづくる) to form
- 組を作る (くみをつくる) to make up a party
- 句を作る (くをつくる) to compose a haiku poem
- 詩を作る (しをつくる) to compose a poem
- 作業 (さぎょう) work
- 操作 (そうさ) operation
- 動作 (どうさ) movement (of the body)
- 作用 (さよう) action
- 相互作用 (そうごさよう) interaction
- 作り (つくり) making
- 作り方 (つくりかた) style of building
- 手作り (てづくり) handmade
- 作り出す (つくりだす) to manufacture
- 作り直す (つくりなおす) to remake
- 矢作 (やはぎ) fletcher
- 作物所 (つくもどころ) palace workshop responsible for making furnishings, etc. (Heian period)
- 作す (なす) to make
- 美作 (みまさか) Mimasaka (former province located in the northeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)
- 作麼生 (そもさん) consider the following
862 words in all.