做 zuò HSK1 work Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 做 originated as a variant form of 作. Components 作 作 SoundMeaning component zuò make The right half of 作 was corrupted to look like unrelated 古. Change in form Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 作 than it was in ancient scripts.攵 攵 Meaning component pū tap 夂 is a component form of 攴. Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangʔsaːɡs Sources Character origin Outlier Dictionary of Chinese CharactersReadings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang