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作 — stroke order
Watch how to write 作 (zuò) stroke by stroke. 作 has 7 strokes and means “to make”. It appears in common words such as 工作 (to work) and 作業 (school assignment). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 作
The most common words that use 作 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
工作gōngzuòto work作業zuòyèschool assignment作為zuòwéione's conduct作品zuòpǐnwork作用zuòyòngto act on動作dòngzuòmovement
How 作 is written
- Radical
- 亻
- Components
- 亻 ＋ 乍
- Formation
- Ideographic — A person 亻 making something for the first time 乍; 乍 also provides the pronunciation.