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Mythic Mandarin

作家 (zuò jiā): meaning and stroke order

作家 (zuò jiā) means author, 个,位.

作家

Simplified
作家
Traditional
作家 (same form)
Pinyin
zuò jiā

Stroke order of 作家

作

  • zuō (bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop
  • zuò to do; to engage in; to write; to compose
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

家

  • jiā used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]
  • jiā home; family
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 傢

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 作家

  1. zuò jiā
    • author
    • CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

Radicals of the characters

作
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 7 strokes · 亻 on the left, 乍 on the right
家
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 10 strokes · 宀 on top, 豕 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

作家 in our stories

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  • 一位美食作家在网上写了一篇文章，说他的菜越来越咸，服务也越来越差。

    yí wèi měishí zuòjiā zài wǎngshang xiě le yì piān wénzhāng shuō tā de cài yuèláiyuè xián fúwù yě yuèláiyuè chà

    A food writer published an article online saying his dishes were getting saltier and the service worse.

    From the story A second chance HSK 5

  • 有趣的是，一九二四年，真实的雷峰塔真的倒了。作家鲁迅还专门写了一篇文章，谈雷峰塔的倒掉和白娘子的故事。

    yǒuqù de shì yījiǔ'èrsì nián zhēnshí de Léifēng Tǎ zhēnde dǎo le zuòjiā Lǔ Xùn hái zhuānmén xiě le yì piān wénzhāng tán Léifēng Tǎ de dǎo diào hé Bái Niángzǐ de gùshi

    Interestingly, in 1924 the real Leifeng Pagoda actually did collapse. The writer Lu Xun even wrote an essay about the pagoda's fall and the story of Lady White.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 作家

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).