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KANJI: SAKU SA tsuku (make, prepare, production, build)

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Character Etymology:

The radical at left is person and the portion at right is from a stylized pictograph of an early adze working on a tree. Thus to make/construct something.

A Listing of All On-Yomi and Kun-Yomi Readings:

on-yomi: SAKU SA
kun-yomi: tsuku(ru) tsuku(ri) -dzuku(ri) kuri saka saっ dzukuri tomo nao hagi masaka

Nanori Readings:

Nanori: kuri saka saっ dzukuri tomo nao hagi masaka

English Definitions:

  1. SA, SAKU: a work, a production; tillage; harvest; ridge (in a field).
  2. tsuku(ru): make, create, manufacture, prepare, draw up, write, compose; build; coin; cultivate; organize, establish; make up (a face), trim (a tree); fabricate; prepare food; commit (sin).
  3. (o)tsuku(ri): makeup; sliced raw fish.
  4. tsuku(ri): make, structure, construction; physique, build; workmanship; (a woman's) makeup; cultivation; a mounting.

Character Index Numbers:

New Nelson: 167
Henshall: 127

Unicode Encoded Version:

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Unicode Encoded Compound Examples:

作り手 (tsuku(ri)te): maker, builder, creator; tenant farmer.
作文 (sakubun): composition, writing.
作品 (sakuhin): production.

 

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