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作

Unicode: U+4F5C

Pinyin: zuō zuò zuó

Definition

* 起，兴起，现在起。 振～。枪声大～。 * 从事，做工。 工～。～息。～业。 * 举行，进行。 ～别（分别）。～乱。～案。～战。～报告。 * 干出，做出，表现出，制造出。 ～恶（ è ）。～弊。～梗。～祟。～态。～色。～为。～难。～奸犯科（为非作歹，触犯法令）。 * 当成，充当。 ～罢。～保。～伐（做媒人）。～壁上观（人家交战，自己站在营垒上看，喻坐观别人成败）。 * 创造。 创～。写～。～曲。～者。 * 文艺方面的成品。 ～品。不朽之～。 * 同"做"。 * 旧时手工业制造加工的场所。 ～坊。 * 从事某种活动。 ～揖。～弄。～死

make; work; compose, write; act, perform

Structure

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Precursors

Oracle Bone Script
c. 1300–1050 BCE (Late Shang)
Inscriptions carved on turtle plastrons and animal bones for divination and record-keeping in the late Shang royal court; the oldest large attested corpus of written Chinese.Wikipedia ->
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Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
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Chu Script
c. 770–221 BCE (Chu, Spring & Autumn–Warring States)
A regional script tradition used in the state of Chu, best known from brush-written bamboo and silk manuscripts with distinctive local forms.Wikipedia ->
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Qin Script
c. 475–206 BCE (Qin, Warring States → Qin dynasty)
Qin-area character forms attested on bamboo/wood slips (e.g., Shuihudi, deposited 217 BCE), overlapping chronologically with the standardization of seal script and the emergence of clerical tendencies.Wikipedia ->
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Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
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Clerical Script
c. 300 BCE–220 CE (emerged late Warring States/Qin; dominant Han)
A practical script that evolved from late Warring States/Qin writing; it matured and became dominant in the Han dynasty, favoring faster, more rectilinear strokes.Wikipedia ->
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Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC