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
- —戸外制作en plein air; plein air painting
- —最高傑作masterpiece; masterwork; crowning work; one's magnum opus; work of the highest quality
- —適地適作right crop for the land; suitable crop for the land
- —連作障害repeated cultivation damage (same crop, same soil); continuous cropping hazard; replant failure
- —奇襲作戦surprise tactics
- —孤児作品orphan works
- —決号作戦Operation Ketsugō (Japanese military plan for responding to the Allied invasion of the homeland)
- —作戦実行putting a plan into operation
- —分益小作tenant farming; sharecropping
- —原著作物underlying work; original work
- —著作権者copyright holder; copyright owner
- —試作段階trial stage; experimental phase; prototype stage
- —大作映画epic film; big-budget movie
- —覆面作家anonymous author; pseudonymous author; writer who conceals his identity
- —作家買いbuying a book, manga, etc. because one is a fan of the author
- —軍事作戦military operation; military tactics; military strategy
- —ヒット作hit (film, song, book, etc.); bestseller; blockbuster
- —作為動詞factitive verb
- —創作版画sōsaku-hanga (woodblock printing art movement); creative prints
- —備荒作物crops planted to stave off famine (e.g., wheat, barley, buckwheat, potatoes); emergency crops