make

Builds 55 distinct compound words — ranked #75 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: サク・サ
訓 kun: つく.る

Making, especially creative or productive work. 作品 a work, 操作 operation, 作文 composition.

The ten most common compounds built on 作. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

55compounds built

1,398times those words occur

#78by productivity alone

#116by how often it turns up

Where 作 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 作. Each one opens its own map.

物thing作物#8 家house; family作家#22 方direction; method; person作り方#38 無nothing; without無作法#39 成become; achieve作成#67 業work; industry; deed作業#86

Words built on 作

作るつくる639 uses

作家さっか122 uses

作文さくぶん77 uses

作品さくひん76 uses

作物さくもつ40 uses

無作法ぶさほう32 uses

作成さくせい24 uses

操作そうさ22 uses

作業さぎょう19 uses

英作文18 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.