Kanji: 作

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JLPT Level:	JLPT N4 (upper beginner level)
Kanken Level:	Kanken Level 9 (completion of 2nd grade)
Grade:	Taught during the 2nd grade in Japan
Radical:	人(亻) Radical name: ひと（にんべん）
Meaning:	Make, production, prepare, build
Usage:	Appears very frequently in Japanese newspapers; only about 100 kanji are used more often.

JLPT Level	Word	Meaning
N5	作文(さくぶん)	composition, writing
N5	作(つく)る	to make
N3	作業(さぎょう)	work, operation, manufacturing, fatigue duty
N3	作品(さくひん)	work, opus, performance, production
N3	作物(さくもつ)	produce (e.g. agricultural), crops
N3	作家(さっか)	author, writer, novelist, artist
N3	作曲(さっきょく)	composition, setting (of music)
N3	作法(さほう)	manners, etiquette, propriety
N3	操作(そうさ)	operation, management, processing
N2	傑作(けっさく)	masterpiece, best work, boner, blunder
N2	作者(さくしゃ)	author, authoress
N2	作成(さくせい)	frame, draw up, make, producing
N2	作製(さくせい)	manufacture
N2	製作(せいさく)	manufacture, production
N2	制作(せいさく)	work (film, book)
N2	創作(そうさく)	production, literary creation, work
N2	動作(どうさ)	action, movements, motions, bearing, behaviour, manners
N2	名作(めいさく)	masterpiece
N1	凶作(きょうさく)	bad harvest, poor crop
N1	原作(げんさく)	original work
N1	工作(こうさく)	work, construction, handicraft, maneuvering
N1	耕作(こうさく)	cultivation, farming
N1	作(さく)	a work, a harvest
N1	作戦(さくせん)	military or naval operations, tactics, strategy
N1	作物(さくぶつ)	literary work
N1	作用(さよう)	action, operation, effect, function
N1	駄作(ださく)	poor work, rubbish
N1	作(つく)り	make-up, sliced raw fish
N1	豊作(ほうさく)	abundant harvest, bumper crop
N1	発作(ほっさ)	fit, spasm