作家

Character by character

• 作zuò7 strokesHSK 1make; work; compose, write; act, perform
• 家jiā10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 傢house, home, residence; family

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 他是作家。

  Tā shì zuò jiā

  He's an author.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 作家. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 工作gōng zuòHSK 1

  to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task

• 家jiāHSK 1

  home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

• 大家dà jiāHSK 2

  everyone; influential family; great expert

• 国家guó jiāHSK 1

  country; nation; state

• 作为zuò wéiHSK 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

• 作zuòHSK 6

  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

• 回家huí jiāHSK 1

  to return home

• 合作hé zuòHSK 3

  to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together; cooperation

• 家庭jiā tíngHSK 2

  family; household

• 作用zuò yòngHSK 2

  to act on; to affect; action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 用, inhibition

• 家里jiā lǐHSK 1

  home

• 专家zhuān jiāHSK 3

  expert; specialist

• 作品zuò pǐnHSK 3

  work (of art); opus

• 动作dòng zuòHSK 1

  movement; motion; action; to act; to move

• 家人jiā rénHSK 1

  family member; (old) servant

• 家伙jiā huoHSK 7

  household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon

• 制作zhì zuòHSK 3

  to make; to manufacture

• 人家rén jiāHSK 4

  household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be

• 在家zài jiāHSK 1

  to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 差); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 家)

• 作业zuò yèHSK 2

  school assignment; homework; work; task; operation; to operate

• 家长jiā zhǎngHSK 2

  head of a household; family head; patriarch; parent or guardian of a child

• 操作cāo zuòHSK 4

  to work; to operate; to manipulate

• 家族jiā zúHSK 7

  family; clan

• 作者zuò zhěHSK 3

  author; writer