做
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to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 人 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 做
- Common rank
- #731
- Unicode
- U+505A
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Formation & memory
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How 做 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Someone 亻 who causes things to happen 故; 故 also provides the pronuncation
How to remember it
make · Heisig RSH #804
人 person + 故 deliberately
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 做
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 重新做人 | to start a new life; to make a fresh start | |
| 无事可做 | to have nothing to do; to have time on one's hands | |
| 做人家 | thrifty; economical | |
| 明人不做暗事 | an honest person does not act surreptitiously (idiom) | |
| 光说不做 | (idiom) to be all talk and no action; to preach what one does not practice | |
| 做生日 | to celebrate a birthday | |
| 一不做，二不休 | lit. either don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); fig. if you do it at all, you may as well … | |
| 无做作 | unaffected (i.e. behaving naturally) | |
| 做人情 | to do a favor to sb | |
| 做生意 | to do business | |
| 量身定做 | to tailor-make; tailor-made; tailored to; customized | |
| 做工作 | to do one's work; to work on sb; to try to persuade sb | |
| 做眼色 | to give sb a meaningful look | |
| 不做声 | keep silent; not say a word | |
| 好汉做事好汉当 | daring to act and courageous enough to take responsibility for it (idiom); a true man has … | |
| 做手脚 | to manipulate dishonestly; to tamper with sth | |
| 做市商 | market maker | |
| 做生活 | to work; to do manual labor | |
| 做活儿 | erhua variant of 做活[zuo4 huo2] | |
| 做工夫 | to practice (work skills) |