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作

JLPT N4 SL2 7 strokes Frequency: #103

Meanings

Make, Production, Prepare, Build

Radicals

亻

Decomposition

⿰亻乍

Etymology

Ideographic: A person 亻 making something for the first time 乍; 乍 also provides the pronunciation

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 7

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

3 diagonal top-to-bottom

4 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

5 vertical right-to-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

サク saku

サ sa

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

つく tsuku

Words Using This Kanji

812 words total

Other (20 words)

workspace

making

to manufacture

to remake

to remake

to adorn

writing songs or poems

workshop

for work

make-believe crying

feigned voice

feigned illness

feigned blindness

artificiality

working group

working draft

composition (of music)

作詩法さくしほう

versification

作さく

work (e.g. of art)

寡作かさく

unprolific (writer, artist, etc.)

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