写作

Character by character

• 写xiě5 strokesHSK 1 traditional 寫write; draw, sketch; compose
• 作zuò7 strokesHSK 1make; work; compose, write; act, perform

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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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 写作. 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

• 写xiěHSK 1

  to write

• 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

• 作品zuò pǐnHSK 3

  work (of art); opus

• 动作dòng zuòHSK 1

  movement; motion; action; to act; to move

• 制作zhì zuòHSK 3

  to make; to manufacture

• 作业zuò yèHSK 2

  school assignment; homework; work; task; operation; to operate

• 操作cāo zuòHSK 4

  to work; to operate; to manipulate

• 作者zuò zhěHSK 3

  author; writer

• 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

• 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)

• 创作chuàng zuòHSK 3

  to create; to produce; to write; creative work; creation

• 作战zuò zhànHSK 6

  combat; to fight

• 发作fā zuòHSK 7

  to flare up; to break out

• 作风zuò fēngHSK 7

  style; style of work; way

• 著作zhù zuòHSK 4

  to write; literary work; book; article; writings

• 副作用fù zuò yòngHSK 7

  side effect

• 看作kàn zuòHSK 6

  to look upon as; to regard as

• 作弊zuò bìHSK 7

  to practice fraud; to cheat; to engage in corrupt practices