做伴 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zuòbàn

accompany

zuò work

做 originated as a variant form of 作.

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 Meaning component

pū tap

夂 is a component form of 攴.

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	ʔsaːɡs

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 半 represents the sound.

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

半 Sound component

bàn half

Regular Modern

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	banX	[C.b]ˤanʔ	comrade

《說文》：“伴，大皃。从人，半聲。”