叫做 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

jiàozuò

called

jiào cry

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 丩 represents the sound.

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

丩 Sound component

jiū join

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kewH	kˤewk-s	shout

《說文》：“叫，嘑也。从口，丩聲。”

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