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做
做
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See also: 作
Translingual
Han character
做 (radical 9 人+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人十口大 (OJRK), four-corner 28240, composition ⿰亻故)
References
- KangXi: page 110, character 29
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 861
- Dae Jaweon: page 236, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 186, character 18
- Unihan data for U+505A
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
做 | |
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Etymology
Colloquial form of the departing-tone variant of 作 (MC t͡sɑH, “to do”), to differentiate from the checked-tone variant (now represented by 作). Loss of checked codas in Mandarin has resulted in homophony of the two.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zou6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): cho
- Min Dong (BUC): có̤
- Min Nan (POJ): chòe / chò / cherè
- Wu (Wiktionary): tsu (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄛˋ
- Wade-Giles: tso4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuoh
- IPA (key): /t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zou6
- Yale: jouh
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzou6
- IPA (key): /t͡sou̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: cho
- Hakka Romanization System: zo
- Hagfa Pinyim: zo4
- IPA: /t͡so⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: có̤
- IPA (key): /t͡sɔ²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Lukang, Taipei, Kinmen, Magong, Hsinchu)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chòe
- Tâi-lô: tsuè
- Phofsit Daibuun: zoex
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sue²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sue⁴¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡sue¹¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Yilan, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taichung)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chò
- Tâi-lô: tsò
- Phofsit Daibuun: zoix
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɤ²¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɤ²¹/
- (Hokkien: Sanxia)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cherè
- Tâi-lô: tserè
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Lukang, Taipei, Kinmen, Magong, Hsinchu)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: tsu (T2)
- IPA (key): /t͡sv̩ʷ³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 做 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /t͡suo⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /t͡suo⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin |
/t͡sou⁵³/ /t͡suo⁵³/ |
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| Jinan |
/t͡suə²¹/ /t͡sou²¹/ ～飯 |
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| Qingdao |
/t͡suə⁴²/ /t͡sou⁴²/ |
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| Zhengzhou | /t͡su³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /t͡su⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /t͡ɕy²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /t͡suə¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /t͡su¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /t͡su²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡səu³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡su¹³/ | |
| Guiyang |
/t͡su²¹³/ /t͡səu²¹³/ 老 |
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| Kunming | /t͡so²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /t͡so⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /t͡sʊ⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡suəʔ²/ |
| Pingyao | /t͡suʌʔ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /t͡suəʔ⁴³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /t͡su³⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /t͡səu⁵¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /t͡so⁴⁴⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /t͡sɤu⁴²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡so³²⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /t͡so⁴²/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /t͡səu⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /t͡səɯ⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /t͡su⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /t͡so⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /t͡so⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /t͡sou²²/ |
| Nanning | /t͡su³³/ | |
| Hong Kong | /t͡sou²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/t͡so²¹/ /t͡sue²¹/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /t͡sɔ²¹²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /t͡sa³³/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /t͡so²¹³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /to⁵⁵/ 作 |
Definitions
做
- to do; to perform
- to make; to produce
- to become
- to give (a party, a reception)
- to be (a role)
- 做賊 / 做贼 ― zuòzéi ― to thieve
- 做客 ― zuòkè ― to be a guest/visitor
- (euphemistic) to make love
Synonyms
Compounds
Derived terms from 做
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Descendants
Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
做 • (ju, ja) (hangeul 주, 자, revised ju, ja, McCune-Reischauer chu, cha)
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Vietnamese
Han character
做 (tố)
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