看作 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

kànzuò HSK6

regard

kàn, kān look

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 倝 represents the sound.

Components

倝 Sound Remnant component

gàn sunrise

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 倝 than it was in ancient scripts.

目 Meaning component

mù eye

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khan	kʰˤa[r]	to watch, guard
	khanH	[kʰ]ˤa[r]-s	gaze at

說文解字

《說文》：“看，睎也。从手下目。，看或从倝。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.268-269
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

zuò make

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

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

乍 Sound component

zhà, zuò suddenly

Change in sound

作 and 乍 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
作 *[ts]ˤak-s
乍 *[dz]ˤrak-s

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

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Component uses

Sound (1)

做

Meaning (1)

做

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsak	[ts]ˤak	do, work
	tsuH	[ts]ˤak-s	do, work

說文解字

《說文》：“作，起也。从人，从乍。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

看 kàn, kān look

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

作 zuò make

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (1)

Meaning (1)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

kàn, kān look

zuò make