作

(to) act (acts, acted, act as), activate, appear, arise, become, begin, come to be, create, compose; conduct, develop, do, emerge, fluorish, function, generate, happen, invent, make (makes, made, will make, will have made), manifest, occur, perform, practice, produce, rise up, sacrifice, set in/to, start out, stand up, stimulate, stir up, transact, undertake, write, work (at/on), do work, start working, get to work (s, ed, ing); (a, the) activity, action, composition, creation, deed, function, operation, project, undertaking, work, workmanship; (to be) aroused, at work, in action, working 462

Radical: 9+5 | First occurrence: Hexagram 42.1