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HSK
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
to call / to be called
HSK 2
to make; to manufacture
HSK 3
to create; to produce; to write / a creative work; a creation
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
to operate / operations / workings / activities (usu. of an organization) / thread (computing)
HSK 6
to look upon as / to regard as
HSK 6
to treat as / to regard as
HSK 6
to hype / to promote (in the media)
HSK 6
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 flare up; to break out
HSK 7-9
cooperation / coordination
HSK 7-9
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
HSK 7-9
to bestir oneself / to pull oneself together / to cheer up / to uplift / to stimulate
HSK 7-9
to be called; to be known as
HSK 7-9
to make preparations
(writing, drawing, calligraphy etc) to apply oneself to producing practice pieces / a practice piece; an exercise
representative work (of an author or artist)
also written as
first publication; maiden work
coroner (old)
(agriculture) to switch to growing a different crop
cooperative education (Tw)
multithreading
to have sth made to order
original works / original text / original author
masterpiece / fine piece of writing
noncooperation
your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly
bad habit (e.g. nose-picking) / petty maneuver / dirty trick / gamesmanship
social work
to pretend / to feign / to act a part
routine
(cinema) slow motion
to change into / to turn into / to become
to be called / to be known as
pretension / affectation / putting on artificial airs
(old) spy; secret agent
to regard as / to view / to consider sth as / to treat as
rice cultivation
deep plowing and careful cultivation
to compose / to write words to a tune
to join forces / to give full cooperation
to pretend / to feign
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *作* | 作* | *作
(bound form) worker / (bound form) workshop / (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc) / a masterpiece
improvisation
to serve as / to be a substitute for
masterpiece / famous work
to write in the style of some author / to write as if from the mouth of sb / a pastiche
mixed cropping (i.e. growing two crops together)
farming / crops
intensive farming
contemptible / disgusting
masterpiece
my unworthy manuscript (humble expr.) / my humble writing
affected / artificial / to make / to manufacture
all the trades / people of all trades and professions
to use for the purpose of / to serve as
(slang) masterpiece
rotation of crops (to preserve fertility of soil)
to change into / to turn into / to become
to attempt / test run
to liken to / to compare to
unaffected (i.e. behaving naturally)
to feign / to pretend
masonry workshop
(agriculture) to interplant
painting; picture
farming
reflex action
signature move
epileptic seizure
normal operation / proper functioning
seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame
to regard as / to treat as
remote operation
to do one's work / to work on sb / to try to persuade sb
panic attack
sequel
covert activities (election rigging etc) / under-the-table manipulations / black operations
(math.) to be written using the following notation / (accounting) to be recorded as (income, an expense etc)
to consider erroneously / incorrectly attributed to sb
fake move or pass (sports) / feint
affected / artificial
(Tw) full-time work
work / manual labor
part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon
can be used for
United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945)
Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), economic cooperation program between China and Vietnam
to cut a long story short / a brief treatment of a complicated subject / fig. to treat an important question as a minor matter
heart attack; to have a heart attack

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