Where does “” come from?

作 (Japanese) comes from Middle Chinese 作, from Middle Chinese 家.

(Japanese): a work, a production; a crop, a harvest; the...

Definitions

  1. a work, a production; a crop, a harvest; the...

Ancestry of “”, step by step

traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle Chinese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Chinese
2Middle Chinese

via Japanese 作る

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese作るto make; to cook; to write a literary work
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