WordTaiwan frequency #12,684
惡作劇
ㄜˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄐㄩˋ
“a prank; a practical joke; a mischievous trick played on someone to embarrass or annoy them.”
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惡
ㄜˋ
Evil; bad; wicked; fierce; ugly; to hate; to loathe; to fear; to slander; to harm; sickness; excrement.
作
ㄗㄨㄛˋ
to do; to make; to write or compose; to act or perform; to pretend; to regard as; to feel (e.g. itchy); worker; workshop
劇
ㄐㄩˋ
A play, opera, or TV series; dramatic or intense; severe or acute; also a surname.
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Words sharing these characters
Vocabulary built from the same characters — most common first
- 工作ㄍㄨㄥ ㄗㄨㄛˋto work; to operate (of a machine); job; task; employment; labor
- 合作ㄏㄜˊ ㄗㄨㄛˋto cooperate; to collaborate; to work together toward a shared goal; (in Taiwan) to co-author or co-compose; to perform together in an ensemble
- 作品ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄆㄧㄣˇa creative work; an artistic or literary piece such as a painting, book, or sculpture; opus
- 作為ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄨㄟˊdeed; act; to act as; in the capacity of; qua; to regard as; to take as
- 創作ㄔㄨㄤˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋto create; to produce; to write; a creative work; a creation
- 製作ㄓˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋto make; to manufacture; to produce (goods, media, etc.)
- 動作ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋmovement; motion; action; physical activity; behavior; something done to achieve a purpose
- 作者ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄓㄜˇauthor; writer; a person who creates literary, artistic, or other creative works
- 作用ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄩㄥˋeffect; impact; function; purpose; intent; activity; (suffix) -ation, -tion
- 作業ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄧㄝˋwork; task; operation; school assignment; homework.
- 作家ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄐㄧㄚauthor; writer (of books, articles, etc.); someone who writes professionally; a person skilled in literature or art
- 運作ㄩㄣˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋto operate; to run; to function; workings; operations; activities (esp. of an organization); thread (computing)