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HSK
to work / (of a machine) to operate / job / work / task / CL: 個|个, , 項|项
HSK 1
work (of art) / opus / CL: ,
HSK 3
to call / to be called
HSK 2
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
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
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个) / to act; to move
HSK 1
workday / working day / weekday
HSK 5
author; writer
HSK 3
to write / to compose / writing / written works
HSK 3
to make; to manufacture
HSK 3
to create; to produce; to write / a creative work; a creation
HSK 3
to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL:
HSK 4
first author (of an academic paper) (abbr. for 第一作者)
to become invalid / to cancel / to delete / to nullify
HSK 6
to work / to operate / to manipulate
HSK 4
(computing) scope
to operate / operations / workings / activities (usu. of an organization) / thread (computing)
HSK 6
in a spurt of energy
HSK 7-9
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  *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
workload; volume of work
HSK 7-9
to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together
HSK 3
to hype / to promote (in the media)
HSK 6
style / style of work / way
HSK 7-9
(computing) scope chain
photosynthesis
to treat as / to regard as
HSK 6
to live somewhere as a visitor; to stay with sb as a guest; to sojourn
HSK 7-9
cooperation / coordination
HSK 7-9
worker
inhibition
maker / manufacturer
to be called; to be known as
HSK 7-9
noncooperation
crop
HSK 7-9
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist by his own petard
creator; author
one's conduct and deeds
HSK 7-9
to compose (music)
to put on an attitude; to pose
(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)
routine
to be valid; to count / authentic
cooperative / workers' or agricultural producers' cooperative etc
HSK 7-9
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) / fig. everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life
to use for the purpose of / to serve as
combat / to fight
HSK 6
Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization / APEC
multithreading
catalysis
tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
working hours
a perception that doesn't reflect reality / a notion based on an erroneous belief
first author (of an academic paper)
studio / workshop
to join forces / to give full cooperation
to look upon as / to regard as
HSK 6
to change into / to turn into / to become
to bear witness; to testify / to serve as evidence
to accompany / to keep sb company
to have an effect / to play a role / to be operative / to work / to function
representative work (of an author or artist)
practical joke / prank / to play a practical joke
to work and rest
to do evil
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
HSK 7-9
literary work / art work
corresponding author (of an academic paper)
to bestir oneself / to pull oneself together / to cheer up / to uplift / to stimulate
HSK 7-9
serves you right for doing sth so stupid (Internet slang)
to show off (loanword, from English "show") / to grandstand / to perform in a stage show
also written as
author unspecified
can be used for
operating environment
seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame
normal operation / proper functioning
(physics) action force
reflex / reflection
side effect
HSK 7-9
work team / working group / task force
(idiom) to reap what one has sown; to stew in one's own juice
to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
HSK 7-9
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
HSK 7-9
composer / songwriter
masterpiece / fine piece of writing
(business) partner
operating desk / control panel / console
(idiom) to act on one's own; to decide for oneself
worksheet
lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty
workshop; atelier; studio / (Tw) workshop; seminar
working report / operating report
worker in science and technology
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) / abbr. to 經合組織|经合组织
to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc) / a masterpiece
United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945)

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