做
zuò HSK1

work

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approved by Peter Olson · Oct 30, 2020, 06:48 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Oct 30, 2020, 06:48 PM

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做 originated as a variant form of 作.

Components

作
作 SoundMeaning component

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
攵 Meaning component

夂 is a component form of 攴.

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsaːɡs

Sources

Character origin
Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang