to build; to manufacture; to create; to establish; to make; to invent

to fabricate; to concoct; to make up; to lie

to train; to cultivate; to nurture

(literary) to go to; to arrive at

(bound form) a party in a lawsuit or legal agreement

(bound form) a crop; a harvest of grain; a classifier for the number of crop harvests

(bound form) an epoch; an era; a period in history

(bound form) in fortune-telling, the eight characters of a person's birth time used for a horoscope

(colloquial) to spend lavishly; to waste; to mess things up; to run wild

the surname Zao

to reach a certain level of achievement or skill

(archaic) a variant reading of 造 zào used in certain classical texts