Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 作

Modern (Beijing) reading: zuò zuō zù

Preclassic Old Chinese: ćāk

Classic Old Chinese: cāk

Western Han Chinese: cāk

Eastern Han Chinese: cāk

Early Postclassic Chinese: cāk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: cāk

Late Postclassic Chinese: cāk

Middle Chinese: câk

Fanqie: 則郝 [a] 子餓 [b]

Rhyme class: 藥 [a] 藥 [b] 御 [c]

English meaning : to act, do, make, create; to act as, be; to start working, start; be active, agitate

Russian meaning[s]: 1) делать; создавать, творить; писать (книгу); 2) действовать; приниматься за...; воодушевлять(ся); 3) вставать, возникать; появляться; 4) быть, являться; принимать (считать) за...; [обращаться] как с...; в качестве; 5) быть в ходу, обращаться; действовать; 6) разразиться; [zuō] 1) ремесленник; рабочий; работа; 2) место работы; 3) навлечь на себя

Shuowen gloss: 起也. 從人. 從乍.

Comments: Also read *ćāk-s, MC (irregularly) cầ (FQ 則箇) id.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 9

Four-angle index: 2031

Karlgren code: 0806 l

Jianchuan Bai: cu4

Dali Bai: cü4

Bijiang Bai: ci4

Shijing occurrences: 50.1

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćɨāk

Meaning: act, start

Chinese: 作 *ćāk act, do, make; to be; rise (806l), 迮 ćāk to start.

Tibetan: ćhags be begotten, produced, come forth, to appear, ãʒ́ag (p. ʒ́ags) to establish, settle, fix.

Lushai: thok (thoʔ) to work, to do (work); to set out; to make a beginning.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 321

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 作

MC description : 宕開一入鐸精

ZIHUI: 0155 0275

Beijing: cuo 3

Jinan: cuǝ 3

Xi'an: cuo 11

Taiyuan: cuǝʔ 41

Hankou: co 12

Chengdu: co 12

Yangzhou: câʔ 4

Suzhou: coʔ 41

Wenzhou: co 41

Changsha: co 4

Shuangfeng: cû 12

Nanchang: cɔk 41

Meixian: cɔk 41

Guangzhou: čɔk 43

Xiamen: cɔk 41 (lit.); coʔ 41

Chaozhou: cak 41

Fuzhou: cauʔ 41

Shanghai: coʔ 4

Zhongyuan yinyun: câu 42

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