Kanji1 / 7
作 kanji
make, production, prepare, build
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
サクサ
Kun readings
つくるつくり-づくり
Words with 作
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —童話作家writer of children's stories
- —文芸作品literary work
- —妨害工作sabotage
- —作中人物character (in a novel, film, etc.)
- —階段耕作terrace culture
- —人道作戦humanitarian operation
- —映画作家script-writer; auteur
- —創作料理creative cookery; creative cuisine
- —豊年満作bumper crops; year of a full rice harvest
- —隠蔽工作(creating) a cover-up
- —偽装工作diversionary tactics (maneuvering); disguise; hide by camouflage
- —挟撃作戦pincer operation (tactic)
- —戯作三昧being absorbed in writing popular novels (cheap fiction); being absorbed in writing something to amuse oneself
- —牽制作戦diversionary operations
- —自作自演performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
- —事前工作preparatory operations; measure taken in advance; doing the groundwork
- —政界工作currying of political favor; buying political influence
- —政治工作political maneuvering; politicking; political machinations
- —宣伝工作propaganda work; propaganda efforts (maneuvers)
- —宣撫工作pacification work (activity)