做

See also: 作

做 U+505A, 做 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-505A ← 偙 [U+5059] CJK Unified Ideographs 偛 → [U+505B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

做 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人十口大 (OJRK), four-corner 2824₀, composition ⿰亻故 or ⿰估攵)

Derived characters

• 𠼏

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 110, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 861
• Dae Jaweon: page 236, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 186, character 18
• Unihan data for U+505A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		做

Etymology

Colloquial form of the departing-tone variant of 作 (MC tsaH, “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.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 做

1. to do; to perform

   你在做什麼？／你在做什么？  ―  Nǐ zài zuò shénme?  ―  What are you doing?

   你做緊乜嘢呀？ [Guangzhou Cantonese, trad.]
   你做紧乜嘢呀？ [Guangzhou Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ zou⁶ gan² mat¹ je⁵ aa³? [Jyutping]

   What are you doing?

   你做咩工作㗎？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   nei⁵ zou⁶ me¹ gung¹ zok³ gaa³? [Jyutping]

   What is your job? / What do you work as?

2. to make; to produce
3. to become
4. to give (a party, a reception)
5. to be (a role)

   做賊／做贼  ―  zuòzéi  ―  to thieve

   做客  ―  zuòkè  ―  to be a guest/visitor

6. (euphemistic) to make love
7. (Cantonese) to air; to broadcast

Synonyms

• (to do):

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• 作
• 妝／妆 (¹tsaon) (Wenzhounese)
• 幹／干
• 搞 (gǎo)
• 整治 (zhěngzhì)
• 物 (muêh⁸) (Teochew)
• 變／变 (Hokkien)
• 辦／办 (bàn)

 

Further reading

• “Entry #6937”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

做

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. (to) make/do

Readings

• Go-on: さ (sa)、さく (saku)
• Kan-on: さ (sa)、さく (saku)
• Kun: なす (nasu, 做す)、つくる (tsukuru, 做る)、やる (yaru, 做る)

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Korean

Hanja

做 • (ju, ja) (hangeul 주, 자)

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Vietnamese

Han character

做: Hán Nôm readings: tố, súa

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