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做主

zuò zhǔ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

做主 (zuò zhǔ) means "see 主". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 做主 means

1. variant of {作主|zuò zhǔ}

The characters in 做主

• 做zuòto make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc)
• 主zhǔowner; master; host

Words containing 做主

• 当官不为民做主不如回家卖红薯dāng guān bù wèi mín zuò zhǔ bù rú huí jiā mài hóng shǔif an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet…

Sounds the same

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

• 作主to decide; to have the final say

Where 做主 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zuò (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zuò zhǔ correctly.
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