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imron -

and this one's good too: http://www.inputking.com It also has a choice of other input methods
besides pinyin.



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holger -

Our chinese teacher told us 作 is usually used in an abstract, non-physical meaning i.e. 作业,
作家, 做文章, 作威作福 etc - whereas 做 is more likely to be used in a material meaning:
做饭, 做工.
But the more i look for examples the more this approach seems to be fallacious.

In our chinese-lession textbook all 做s have been chenged into 作, so maybe the latter one is
going to be more commonly used as language evolves.

Interesting seems to me the word 做作 meaning unnatural, stilted, contrived.










venture160 -

In Business, if you are providing a service to someone i.e non material, you can use 作.
贵公司委托我们作.....fill in the blanks..












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