What do you do for a living?
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作为
Traditional: 作為
zuò wéi
HSK 3.0 · 4HSK 2.0 · 5
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zuò wéi · zok3 wai4 (Jyutping)
- one's conduct
- deed
- activity
- accomplishment
- achievement
- to act as
- as (in the capacity of)
- qua
- to view as
- to look upon (sth as)
- to take sth to be
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Character breakdown
作
- Meaning
- make; work; compose, write; act, perform
- Radical
- 亻
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- ⿰亻乍
- Cangjie
- OHS
- Four-corner
- 2821.1
为
- Meaning
- do, handle, govern, act; be
- Radical
- 丶
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- ⿻丶⿴力丶
- Cangjie
- IKSI
- Four-corner
- 3402
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Example sentences
I saw what Tom did.
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