作业

Character by character

• 作zuò7 strokesHSK 1make; work; compose, write; act, perform
• 业yè5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 業profession, business; GB radical 111

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 没写作业。

  Méi xiě zuò yè

  I didn't do the homework.

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• 做你的作业。

  Zuò nǐ de zuò yè

  Do your homework.

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• 我们做了作业。

  Wǒ men zuò le zuò yè

  We did our homework.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 作业. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 工作gōng zuòHSK 1

  to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task

• 作为zuò wéiHSK 4

  one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be

• 作zuòHSK 6

  to do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign; to regard as; to consider to be; to be; to act the part of; to feel (itchy, nauseous etc); writings; works

• 合作hé zuòHSK 3

  to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together; cooperation

• 作用zuò yòngHSK 2

  to act on; to affect; action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 用, inhibition

• 专业zhuān yèHSK 3

  specialty; specialized field; main field of study (at university); major; professional

• 职业zhí yèHSK 3

  occupation; profession; vocation; professional

• 事业shì yèHSK 3

  undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation

• 作品zuò pǐnHSK 3

  work (of art); opus

• 动作dòng zuòHSK 1

  movement; motion; action; to act; to move

• 毕业bì yèHSK 4

  graduation; to graduate; to finish school

• 制作zhì zuòHSK 3

  to make; to manufacture

• 商业shāng yèHSK 3

  business; trade; commerce

• 企业qǐ yèHSK 4

  company; firm; enterprise; corporation

• 行业háng yèHSK 4

  trade; profession; industry; business

• 操作cāo zuòHSK 4

  to work; to operate; to manipulate

• 作者zuò zhěHSK 3

  author; writer

• 业yèHSK 7

  line of business; industry; occupation; job; employment; school studies; enterprise; property; (Buddhism) karma; deed; to engage in; already

• 业务yè wùHSK 5

  business; professional work; service

• 作家zuò jiāHSK 2

  author

• 作出zuò chūHSK 4

  to put out; to come up with; to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc); to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc); to draw (conclusion); to deliver (speech, judgment); to devise (explanation); to extract

• 工业gōng yèHSK 3

  industry

• 当作dàng zuòHSK 6

  to treat as; to regard as

• 运作yùn zuòHSK 6

  to operate; operations; workings; activities (usu. of an organization); thread (computing)