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作出

zuò chū

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

作出 (zuò chū) means "to put out; to come up with; to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 作出 means

1. to put out
2. to come up with
3. to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc)
4. to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc)
5. to draw (conclusion)
6. to deliver (speech, judgment)
7. to devise (explanation)
8. to extract

The characters in 作出

• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign
• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield

Example sentences

• 你怎样作出的解释？
  How do you account for that?
• 汤姆担心工作出错。
  Tom worries about making mistakes at work.

Sounds the same

Read zuò chū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 做出to put out; to issue

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zuò chū correctly.
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