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写作

xiě zuò

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 寫作

写作 (xiě zuò) means "to write". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 写作 means

1. to write
2. to compose
3. writing
4. written works

The characters in 写作

• 写xiěto write
• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign

Example sentences

• 没写作业。
  I didn't do the homework.
• 他靠写作谋生。
  Tā kào xiězuò móushēng.
  He makes a living as a writer.
• 她靠写作生活。
  She makes a living from writing.
• 她的写作很好。
  Her writing is very good.
• 他忘了写作业。
  He forgot to do his homework.
• 他不喜欢写作。
  He doesn't like writing.

Where 写作 is taught

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

Go deeper

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