Keyword
make
Info
FrequencyTop 100
Type
Kyōiku (2nd grade) 
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KankenLevel 9
Heisig1224
Readings
つく
(49%)
さく
(26%)
(19%)
さっ
(2%)
づく
(2%)
Composed of
thin person
while
Mnemonic

While you're a really thin person, weak and feeble, you can still make things. Sure, you might not be able to do carpentry, or anything else that requires significant strength, but you can still make paper planes or something like that.

Used in kanji (1 in total)
bamboo rope
Used in vocabulary (855 in total)
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
operation; management; handling; manipulating (to one's benefit); manipulation; influencing
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
action; movements; motions; bearing; behaviour; behavior
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
drawing up (e.g. legal document, contract, will, etc.); preparing; writing; framing; making; producing
easy; simple; ready; casual; off-hand; easy-going
author; writer; novelist; artist
work (e.g. of art); production; harvest; cultivation; technique
action; operation; effect; function
handmade; homegrown; hand-crafted; homemade
work (film, book); production; creation; turning (something) out
creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright
new work; new production; new composition; new creation; new title
manufacture; production
operation; functioning; running
manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making
handicraft; work; construction; maneuvering; manoeuvering
fit; spasm; attack; seizure
to form; to shape; to make; to mold; to mould; to build up
conduct; behaviour; movements; gesture; performance (on stage, etc.); dance
creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention
masterpiece; best work; amusing blunder; funny mistake; boner
crop; crops; (agricultural) produce; farm products
strategy meeting; council of war
one's own work; making by oneself
side effect; adverse reaction
to remake; to rebuild
original work
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
trial product; prototype model
no trouble; easy; simple
trial manufacture; experiment; test piece; prototype
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
to make time; to carve out some time (to do something)
laborer; labourer; blue-collar worker
failed creative work; flop; dud; bomb
etiquette; courtesy
masterpiece
forced laugh; forced smile
work-in-progress; working state
composition; setting (of music)
remote control; remote operation
work of art the creator has confidence in; work one is proud of
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
spy; agent provocateur; covert operative; maker; builder; constructor
confectionery making
writing (an essay, prose, etc.); composition; formal writing with little real meaning
manufacture; production
writing; book
workshop; works
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt
masterwork; masterpiece; crowning work; one's magnum opus; work of the highest quality
having children; attempting to conceive
sashimi; make-up
manufacturer; producer
crops; agricultural produce
work clothes; fatigues
large-scale operation; large-scale campaign; major mission
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
ill-mannered; rude
performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
within the story (of a book, play, film, etc.)
trouble; difficulty; hospitality; treatment; treat
abundant harvest; bumper crop
workbench; work table
pre-made (esp. food); prepared in advance
ill-mannered; rude
maker; builder; creator; tenant farmer
this piece; this work
large-scale work; voluminous work; monumental work; great work; masterpiece
for work; for manufacturing
fake (work); counterfeit
malfunction; failure
work clothes; workwear; boilersuit; overalls
poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure; low quality (e.g. of literary works)
random; unintentional; unintended
to form a line (row)
manipulation of information; spin
cultivation; farming
to create a debt in one's favor (e.g. by doing someone a favor); to create an obligation in one's favor
artificiality; pretence; contrived act; commission (of a crime); feasance
manual labor; manual labour; manual procedures
style (of a work, author, artist, etc.); characteristics
work of art; artwork; objet d'art
subversive activities
painstaking piece of work; work of great effort; tour de force; toil; labor; labour
spasmodic(ally); fitful
most important work (of a writer, artist, etc.); representative work; masterpiece
fake smile; false smile
simple work; repetitive job; unskilled work; menial work
heart attack; to have a heart attack
diversionary tactics (maneuvering); disguise; hide by camouflage
rescue mission; evacuation operation
creative work (e.g. artistic, literary)
original author (of a work)
memory-making; making memories
debut work; one's first work
sound of operation; operation noise; running noise
drawing pictures; painting pictures; taking photographs
making; forming; cultivating; form; appearance
intentional; deliberate; contrived; artificial
works; factory; plant
dodgy dealings; monkey business
previous work; preceding work; first crop grown in a double-cropped field; preceding crop
most recent work (e.g. book, film, etc.); latest work; latest offering
dressing oneself up to look young; altering one's appearance to look young; dressing younger than one's age
prototype model; experimental machine
deceitful; cruel
to farm; to cultivate a field
collaboration; joint work
user guide; how to operate; operation procedures
to perfect; to detail; to polish; (arch.) to make (inside something)
poor piece of work; rubbish; trash
(writing) song lyrics
will (urge) to create; creative urge; appetite for writing
easy; simple; ready; casual; off-hand; easy-going
rice cultivation; rice crop
Mimasaka (former province located in the northeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)
assembly-line system
bad harvest; poor crop
building (esp. a house); house fixture; fitting; facial features
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
fitness training; development of physical strength; building stamina; keeping up one's fitness
workload; quantity of work; work rate; units produced
manufacturing; craftsmanship; making New-Year's decorations; (arch.) preparing fields; (arch.) farming
repair work; renovation work; restoration work
to put on coquettish airs; to act flirtatiously; to act kittenish
study (for a role); preparation for a part (in a play, etc.)
playwright; dramatist
plagiarism; plagiarised work
operation plan; scheme of operations; plan of campaign
samue; monk's working clothes
features of the face
control board; control panel; console
mopping-up operation; search-and-destroy operation
maiden work; debut work
implementor; author
etiquette; good manners
derivative work (usu. unauthorized and produced by fans, e.g. dōjinshi, fanfiction)
to compose a poem
trial stage; experimental phase; prototype stage
operability; usability; user friendliness; ease of use; maneuverability; manoeuvrability
concocting an alibi
military operation; military tactics; military strategy
cultivated land
posthumous works
planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)
composition of a poem
songwriting (words and music)
super work; tremendous work; spectacular; blockbuster
hit (film, song, book, etc.); bestseller; blockbuster
toil; labor; labour; painstaking piece of work; (a) work involving considerable effort
to remake; to rebuild
concocting an alibi
no trouble; easy; simple
production cost
(Japanese) Copyright Act
operational; strategic
(a) study (e.g. in music, art, sculpture, etc.); etude; practice piece
no trouble; easy; simple
art project which is done in place of a graduation thesis at a college of arts
under construction; in preparation
creative cookery; creative cuisine
great writer; major writer
title (of a work of art)
putting a plan into operation
dry field farming; dry field crop
autopurificatory activity (in the natural world)
tenant farming
physical culture; bodybuilding (body development, not necessarily weightlifting)
house for rent; house to let; building a house; built house
small build; small size
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt
good piece of work; honourable mention (honorable)
musical composition; melody writing; song writing
mystery writer; detective fiction writer; crime author
operation (working) of the mind
operator; worker; maker
woman writer; lady writer; authoress
in operation (of a machine, especially security cameras); in use; in action
anthology; collection of works
nest-building; making a hive, web, den, etc.
manufacturing; craftsmanship; build
community door-to-door campaign; search operation; cleaning campaign carried out thoroughly over an area
networking; making contacts
feigned voice; unnatural voice
authentic work (as opposed to a fake)
fletcher; arrow maker; fletching; arrow-making
independent production (e.g. of a film)
(operator) console
fabrication; lie; fiction
written thing (e.g. book, musical composition); works
built-in; fixed; attached
error (in the operation of a machine, vehicle, etc.); operation mistake; operational error
much-discussed work (book, film, etc.)
built-in; fixed; attached
oeuvre; complete works
manufacturing cost; production cost
penal labour; work assigned to prisoners
joint work; collaboration
method of operation; operating procedure
rush work; crash program; working on a crash basis; working at top speed
elementary operation; basic operation; fundamental procedure
Japanese witch-hazel (Hamamelis japonica)
trouble; difficulty; hospitality; treatment; treat
to adorn; to decorate; to dress up; to build up
creating a (usually favorable) environment
to make
old work; existing work
rice cultivation; rice farming
cartography; mapping
controversial work (art, literature, etc.); work that caused public criticism; work of art dealing with contemporary questions; succès de scandale
drawing and manual arts (school subject)
rotation of crops
political maneuvering; politicking; political machinations
manufacturing; craftsmanship; making New-Year's decorations; (arch.) preparing fields; (arch.) farming
(made of) stone; stone-built
repeated cultivation damage (same crop, same soil); continuous cropping hazard; replant failure
playwriting
town planning; urban development; community development; creating a community
work procedure; operational procedure
fabrication; lie; fiction
adaptation (of story)
lyric writer; lyricist; songwriter
to make up a party
fool; blockhead
idea; design; motif; conception; intention
broadcast writer (TV and radio)
manufacturing; craftsmanship; making things by hand
next work (writer, composer, etc.)
light work; light-duty work
ghost-writing
fiction writer; dime novelist
no trouble; easy; simple
copyright holder; copyright owner
co-production; collaboration
prolific (writer, artist, etc.); productive; producing many works; writing prolifically
one's characteristics as a writer; characteristics of a creator
timeless masterpiece; immortal work
epic film; big-budget movie
animation director
two crops a year
to fix (e.g. to a wall); to secure; to install; to plant
spy; special agent; covert operative
packing; baling; crating
character (in a novel, film, etc.)
cheap literature; writing for amusement; light literature popular in the late Edo period
poor work; humble reference to one's own work
farm hand; tenant
to fix (e.g. to a wall); to secure; to install; to plant
keeping soil in good condition
writer of children's stories
work by the same author (artist, etc.); work in the same style; same way of making
point of action (e.g. of a lever)
apocryphal work; forgery; spurious article
psychological tactics
work sent to a competition; competition entry
manipulation of public opinion
versification; verse making
bactericidal action; germicidal action
rural community development; rural community activation
operations (a strategy) on two fronts; two-pronged strategy
working group; task force
crop conditions; quality (of art)
anonymous author; pseudonymous author; writer who conceals his identity
excellent (piece of) work
drawing a figure; drawing a diagram; construction
to put on coquettish airs; to act flirtatiously; to act kittenish
mediocre work; poor work
writing songs or poems; poem
collection (e.g. literary works); collected edition
to compose a haiku poem
work of art or literature that brings fame
stimulant effect (e.g. caffeine)
trial printing; prototype edition
rent paid by a tenant farmer
inconsistently, horribly drawn animated film or cartoon; animated cartoon episode of lower picture quality than other episodes in the same series
English composition
dance (in kabuki); dance play
forbearance; omission; nonfeasance; inaction
operating principles
gardening; gardener
creative writer
town planning; urban development; community development; creating a community
strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building)
recent work
sashimi prepared from live fish, arranged in its original shape; fresh sashimi
poor piece of work; rubbish; one of my works
English composition
model of writing; example of writing; example sentence (in a dictionary); illustrative sentence
landed farmer; owner farmer
bribery scheme; acquisition maneuver
operation to win over someone by using a tactic of gentle persuasion
internal maneuvering; secret maneuvering (within an organization); reconciling the various views within an organization before airing something in public
factory ship; repair ship; spy ship
share price manipulation
report generation; report writing; report writer
creative power; genius; creative originality
promoting; arousing
creating a garden; landscape gardening
collecting bodies (of casualties, etc.); recovering bodies
new creation; new invention; new production; new breed
play writing
semiannual crop; two crops per year
small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar; tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field
normal crop
(mutual) interaction; reciprocal action; interplay
house playwright (of kabuki)
peace initiative; peace overture
copyright infringement; (software, etc.) piracy
writing a book; literary work
unprolific (writer, artist, etc.)
imitation (work)
whole work; all of the works
floriculture; flower gardening; floriculturist
propaganda work; propaganda efforts (maneuvers)
manufactured article; work; (a) construction; structure
animation studio; animation production company
personnel training; human resources development; character building
restoration; restoration (restorative) work
preparatory operations; measure taken in advance; doing the groundwork
work after one's heart
Japanese sword making
epileptic seizure; epileptic fit
operational; manipulative
counterfeiter; faker; appropriationist
sanitation worker; garbage collector; refuse collector; street cleaner
come-back work (film, album, book, etc.)
shoreline protection or operations
wheat raising
mechanism of action (e.g. drug); mode of action; action mechanism
composing haiku poems
fields and rice paddies that have been abandoned and are no longer cultivated
competition for better work
behavior; bearing; demeanor; one's daily life
decorated with gold
good crop; masterpiece
style of building; construction; recipe; how to grow (something)
artistic work; literary work
operational expense
work in a Zen temple (e.g. cleaning, working in the fields)
porcelain making; ceramics making; pottery making
methods of writing; rules of good writing; writing style guide
cartography; mapping
confabulation; fabrication
thin strips of raw fish and squid
rice-field tilling
second crop; interim crop
management task; management function
splendid work; masterpiece
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt
to put up an (emotional) wall (between two people); to become distant; to form a wall (of people)
antiterrorist operation; counterterrorism operation
makeshift; improvised; hurriedly prepared; hastily got up
sashimi with skin still attached
experimental car
lyric writer; lyricist; songwriter
to crow at the break of dawn (of a rooster, etc.); to mark the dawn; to proclaim the dawn
action-reaction law; Newton's third law of motion
(immunological) sensitization
unfaithful adaptation; hideous adaptation; terrible spin-off
aerial work platform; elevating work platform; boom lift; bucket truck; cherry picker
semi-recent release (usu. video)
pacification work (activity)
sashimi prepared from live fish, arranged in its original shape
reaction; adverse effect
cast-on stitch
Operation Barbarossa (1941)
movie in which ... has the starring role
sashimi prepared from live fish, arranged in its original shape; fresh sashimi
Invasion of Normandy (June-July 1944); Normandy Invasion
implementation technique
weathering (action)
(the act of) disintegration
start day for military operation; departure day; D-Day
crop diversification; crop rotation; change of crops
works (of art, etc.) on display
review work; study; investigation
price manipulation; price fixing
genetically-modified crop; genetically-engineered crop; transgenic crop; GM crop
catch crop; intercropping
second crop
child-operation
pincer operation (tactic)
spade work; preliminaries
efficient cause
touch controls (e.g. on a smartphone)
auxiliary logging road
coiling (pottery-making method)
two-part work
Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
diversionary operations
odd but somehow interesting work of art
three crops a year
string-pulling; backstage manoeuvering (maneuvering)
currency intervention; foreign exchange market intervention; currency manipulation
deportment; behavior; carriage
no trouble; easy; simple
composition and arrangement
single crop
mixed cultivation
sashimi prepared from live fish, arranged in its original shape
catalytic action; catalysis
cataplexy; atonic seizure
(immunological) desensitization
makeshift; improvised; hurriedly prepared; hastily got up
poor manufacture; poor quality; inferior goods
copyright notice; copyright declaration
overproduction
overproduction
chrysanthemum growing
movie in which ... has the starring role
tsukuri-e; painting technique with initial lines painted over by opaque color and redrawn later
winter crop
underground activities; secret maneuvering
feigned illness
fiction; fabrication
impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests
coauthor; joint author; collaborator
performer of an action; agent; actor
assimilation; metabolism; anabolism
grand mal (seizure)
controlling element; actuator; operating portion
thinly made; slight build or stature
to make; to produce; to manufacture
designing a font; creating a new character not currently available
sashimi; make-up
autumn crops; fall crops
audit trail; history
script-writer; auteur
processor frequency; clock speed
adding something to or altering a finished work of art; something added or altered in this manner
standards author; writer of standards
sashimi prepared from live fish, arranged in its original shape; fresh sashimi
symbol manipulation
rice paid as rent
crops planted in summer
buying a book, manga, etc. because one is a fan of the author
spring crop
full array of masterpieces
sliced raw fish
abandonment of cultivation
epileptic seizure; epileptic fit
heavy rescue vehicle; rescue truck
carbon assimilation; carbon fixation
undefined behavior; unspecified behavior
honorable mention; honourable mention
rural community development; rural community activation
anonymous; of unknown authorship
affected look; made-up face
-maker (e.g. ice-maker)
becoming haggard
bumper crops; year of a full rice harvest
bibliographical catalogue; author bibliography
activities of daily living; ADL; normal activities of daily life
construction camp; bunkhouse; workers' living quarters
right crop for the land; suitable crop for the land
fundamental interaction (i.e. gravitation, electromagnetism, weak interaction, strong interaction)
painted eyebrows
hydraulic oil; hydraulic fluid
crops; quality
magnum opus; (one's) best work
tenant farming; sharecropping
recommended system requirements (software)
to raise a war cry
no trouble; easy; simple
manufactured article
to set a bad example; to create a bad precedent
production committee system (joint financing for a work, e.g. anime, film, game)
to fail in making
selection of masterpieces
stick with a hook, claw or other handling mechanism
impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests
make-believe crying
log (i.e. work-file)
without any difficulty; with ease; easily
Japanese witch-hazel (Hamamelis japonica); bumper crop; abundant harvest
Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
multiple cropping
joint work (art, music, etc.)
sifting out; weeding out; selection; sorting
landed and tenant farming; landed farming with some tenant farming on the side
currying of political favor; buying political influence
to form; to shape; to make; to mold; to mould; to build up
building (esp. a house); house fixture; fitting; facial features
fabrication; lie; fiction
to pile up; to form into a (huge) pile
sake brewer; sake brewery
rural community development; rural community activation
catch crop; intercropping
imitation (work)
sashimi prepared from live fish, arranged in its original shape
deportment; behavior; carriage
tsukuri-e; painting technique with initial lines painted over by opaque color and redrawn later
-maker (e.g. ice-maker)
various works
without any difficulty; with ease; easily
goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni)
perpetual land lease; perpetual tenant farmer
perpetual land lease; perpetual tenant farmer
something accidentally accomplished; two working together
feigning good feeling
to fail in making
feigned illness
alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume
feigned blindness
well-trimmed tree
farm; workshop
surface soil
sashimi prepared from live fish, arranged in its original shape
rights of authorship
nonfarming land; untilled land
delivery; parturition
subtenancy; sublease
tactical operations center; tactical operations centre
poor crop; diminished yield
the right to tenant farm in perpetuity
suitable crop
shape of the head; using make-up
stabilizing (stock) transaction
squid chopped, salted and mixed in its own ink
crime of commission
subject of a composition
without any difficulty; with ease; easily
without any difficulty; with ease; easily
price-keeping operation; PKO
Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering; FATF
being absorbed in writing popular novels (cheap fiction); being absorbed in writing something to amuse oneself
Three Alls Strategy (Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War)
a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
author's personal rights; moral rights
fish, chicken, shellfish, etc. blanched by exposure to boiling and then icy water
fish, chicken, shellfish, etc. blanched by exposure to boiling and then icy water
leather; tanned animal hide; kanji "leather" radical (radical 177)
petit mal (seizure)
bowyery; bow making; bowcraft
(immunological) desensitization
manual process; manual operation; manual procedure
(systems management) operation
Data Manipulation Language; DML
work(ing) space; work(ing) area
working-storage section (COBOL)
parent-operation
single step operation; step-by-step operation
single step operation; step-by-step operation
availability ratio
character manipulation
cotton production
operating voltage; working voltage
differential gap
finely sliced eel and cucumber salad, dressed in sake, soy sauce and vinegar
writing (poetry); composing
working angle; angle of action; (camshaft) duration
termination of cultivation (usu. tobacco)
good crop; increased yield
palace workshop responsible for making furnishings, etc. (Heian period)
vasoactive substances; vasoactive agents
stylishness (esp. of a woman working at a nightclub, etc.); sophistication; refinement; class; style
non-manual signals; NMS
dish of white and red-fleshed fish arranged next to each other
hydraulic oil; hydraulic fluid
market manipulation; monetary operation
to window-dress; to put on airs; to be pretentious; to pretend
smaller harvest than expected; poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure
operation order
plan; tactic; strategy
neologism (esp. medical)
made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation; arranging a group of things or people to form a character; (arch.) kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); (arch.) Japanese-made kanji
made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation; arranging a group of things or people to form a character; (arch.) kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); (arch.) Japanese-made kanji
en plein air; plein air painting
fundamental interaction; fundamental force
central control room; main control room
online sockpuppet (who acts on behalf of a company or organization); paid troll
Operation Ketsugō (Japanese military plan for responding to the Allied invasion of the homeland)
underlying work; original work
I feign no hypotheses; hypotheses non fingo
denudation; degradation
spy; secret agent; ninja
welfare workshop; collaborative workshop
carbon assimilation; carbon fixation
crops planted in summer
common mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)
to be ready to cry; to be on the point of tears
Examples (200 in total)
What did you make?
What are you making?
What do you make?