做媒 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zuòméi

matchmake

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. 女 represents the meaning and 某 represents the sound.

女 Meaning component

nǚ, nü woman

某 Sound component

mǒu certain thing or person

Regular Modern

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mwoj	C.mˤə	match-maker, go-between

《說文》：“媒，謀也，謀合二姓。从女，某聲。”