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Variants
Phonetic
Semantic
Apparent
乍 人 ⿰⺅乍
Mandarin
zuo4, zuo2, zu3
English
Definitions
to make; to do; to regard as; to take (somebody) for; act; compose; perform; work; write
Mnemonic
One 人 suddenly 乍 moved (compare 起)