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to work / (of a machine) to operate / job / work / task / CL: 個|个, , 項|项
HSK 1
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个) / to act; to move
HSK 1
author / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
to act on; to affect / action; function; activity / impact; result; effect / purpose; intent / (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用, inhibition
HSK 2
school assignment / homework / work / task / operation / CL: 個|个 / to operate
HSK 2
to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:
HSK 2
to call / to be called
HSK 2
author; writer
HSK 3
work (of art) / opus / CL: ,
HSK 3
to create; to produce; to write / a creative work; a creation
HSK 3
to make; to manufacture
HSK 3
to write / to compose / writing / written works
HSK 3
to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together
HSK 3
to work / to operate / to manipulate
HSK 4
to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL:
HSK 4
one's conduct / deed / activity / accomplishment / achievement / to act as / as (in the capacity of) / qua / to view as / to look upon (sth as) / to take sth to be
HSK 4
to put out / to come up with / to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc) / to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc) / to draw (conclusion) / to deliver (speech, judgment) / to devise (explanation) / to extract
HSK 4
workday / working day / weekday
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *作* | 作* | *作
to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works
HSK 6
to treat as / to regard as
HSK 6
combat / to fight
HSK 6
to operate / operations / workings / activities (usu. of an organization) / thread (computing)
HSK 6
to become invalid / to cancel / to delete / to nullify
HSK 6
to hype / to promote (in the media)
HSK 6
to look upon as / to regard as
HSK 6
side effect
HSK 7-9
to practice fraud / to cheat / to engage in corrupt practices
HSK 7-9
to be called; to be known as
HSK 7-9
cooperation / coordination
HSK 7-9
crop
HSK 7-9
style / style of work / way
HSK 7-9
to flare up; to break out
HSK 7-9
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
HSK 7-9
cooperative / workers' or agricultural producers' cooperative etc
HSK 7-9
to set oneself against / to oppose / to make a pair
HSK 7-9
in a spurt of energy
HSK 7-9
to bestir oneself / to pull oneself together / to cheer up / to uplift / to stimulate
HSK 7-9
one's conduct and deeds
HSK 7-9
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
HSK 7-9
attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive / feckless
HSK 7-9
to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
HSK 7-9
workload; volume of work
HSK 7-9
(farm) crops
HSK 7-9
to live somewhere as a visitor; to stay with sb as a guest; to sojourn
HSK 7-9
studio / workshop
(physics) action force
literary work / art work
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *作* | 作* | *作
(bound form) worker / (bound form) workshop / (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly
to use for the purpose of / to serve as
original works / original text / original author
to answer / to respond
masterpiece / fine piece of writing
to counterfeit / to falsify / to cheat / to defraud / fraudulent / to behave affectedly
masterpiece
to compose (music)
workshop (of artisan)
work / manual labor
to ache
to commit a crime
to be abbreviated to / (followed by a verb) slightly
affected / artificial / to make / to manufacture
(idiom) to achieve sth worthwhile; to make a positive contribution
rotation of crops (to preserve fertility of soil)
to do evil
to pretend / to feign / to act a part
to accompany / to keep sb company
(of a ghost) to make strange things happen / to act up / to act behind the scenes / to make mischief / odd / to misbehave (euphemism for having sex)
to drop (subject etc)
to conduct oneself / same as 做人
first publication; maiden work
to change into / to turn into / to become
affected / artificial
lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom) / fig. the originator of an evil practice
interplanting
a match made in heaven (idiom)
to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc) / a masterpiece
to be in charge in one's own house (idiom) / to be the master of one's own affairs
(idiom) to act on one's own; to decide for oneself
to bow with hands held in front
to feel sick / to feel nauseous / to feel disgusted
to adopt an attitude / to strike a posture
to sin
to play deaf-mute
to paint
to write in the style of some author / to write as if from the mouth of sb / a pastiche
(idiom) to reap what one has sown; to stew in one's own juice
to accomplish much / to have good prospects / to have a promising future
deep plowing and careful cultivation
(idiom) to think oneself clever
to keep silent
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist by his own petard
valid / counting (as valid)
to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages
pretension / affectation / putting on artificial airs
to join forces / to give full cooperation
to incite trouble / to stir up havoc
to take one's leave / to bid farewell
to put on an attitude; to pose

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