作家
zuò jiāㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄐㄧㄚ
Sino-Vietnamese: TÁC GIA
Traditional: 作家
HSK 3.0 · 4TOCFL 4
Meaning(noun)
author
Measure words: 个、位
Examples
他想成为一名作家。
tā xiǎng chéng wéi yì míng zuò jiā.
He wants to become a writer.
这位作家写了很多小说。
zhè wèi zuò jiā xiě le hěn duō xiǎo shuō.
This writer has written many novels.
我最喜欢的作家是越南人。
wǒ zuì xǐ huan de zuò jiā shì yuè nán rén.
My favorite writer is Vietnamese.
Easily confused
- 作者 — 作家 is a writer by profession; 作者 is the author of a given work.
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Stroke order
TÁC · 7 strokes
worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
GIA · 10 strokes
used in 家伙 and 家俱
Related words
- 工作 gōng zuò — to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task
- 作用 zuò yòng — to act on; to affect; action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 用, inhibition
- 作业 zuò yè — school assignment; homework; work; task; operation; to operate
- 动作 dòng zuò — movement; motion; action; to act; to move
- 作者 zuò zhě — author; writer
- 作为 zuò wéi — 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
- 合作 hé zuò — to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together; cooperation
- 作品 zuò pǐn — work (of art); opus