| 作辍 | zuò chuò | now working, now stopping |
| 作风正派 | zuò fēng zhèng pài | to be honest and upright; to have moral integrity |
| 作马 | zuò mǎ | trestle; carpenter's frame; calling sth a horse |
| 使作呕 | shǐ zuò ǒu | sicken |
| 俾夜作昼 | bǐ yè zuò zhòu | lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil; work especially hard |
| 俾昼作夜 | bǐ zhòu zuò yè | to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour |
| 假作 | jiǎ zuò | to feign; to pretend |
| 假动作 | jiǎ dòng zuò | fake move or pass (sports); feint |
| 做准备工作 | zuò zhǔn bèi gōng zuò | make preparations |
| 傅作义 | Fù Zuò yì | Fu Zuoyi (1895-1974), Guomindang general, subsequently PRC top general and politician |
| 仅作参考 | jǐn zuò cān kǎo | for reference only |
| 光化作用 | guāng huà zuò yòng | photochemical effect; photosynthesis; photolysis |
| 全时工作 | quán shí gōng zuò | full time work |
| 八小时工作制 | bā xiǎo shí gōng zuò zhì | eight hour working day |
| 共轭作用 | gòng è zuò yòng | conjugation |
| 分解作用 | fēn jiě zuò yòng | decomposition |
| 创作力 | chuàng zuò lì | originality |
| 创作者 | chuàng zuò zhě | originator; creator; author (of some project); inventor |
| 力作 | lì zuò | to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc); a masterpiece |
| 动作片 | dòng zuò piàn | action movie; CL: 部 |
| 化作 | huà zuò | to change into; to turn into; to become |
| 半日工作 | bàn rì gōng zuò | part time work |
| 协同作用 | xié tóng zuò yòng | synergy; cooperative interaction |
| 南亚区域合作联盟 | Nán Yà Qū yù Hé zuò Lián méng | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation |
| 即兴之作 | jí xìng zhī zuò | improvisation |
| 反射作用 | fǎn shè zuò yòng | reflex; reflection |
| 反射动作 | fǎn shè dòng zuò | reflex action |
| 叫作 | jiào zuò | to call; to be called |
| 可作 | kě zuò | can be used for |
| 可操作的艺术 | kě cāo zuò de yì shù | the art of the possible (Bismarck on politics) |
| 合作伙伴 | hé zuō huǒ bàn | cooperative partner |
| 合作协议 | hé zuò xié yì | cooperation agreement |
| 合作市 | Hé zuò shì | Hezuo county level city in Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘南藏族自治州, Gansu |
| 合作者 | hé zuò zhě | co-worker; collaborator; also collaborator with the enemy |
| 合作农场 | hé zuò nóng chǎng | collective farm, Russian: kolkhoz |
| 吉卜力工作室 | Jí bǔ lì gōng zuò shì | Studio Ghibli, Japanese film studio |
| 名作 | míng zuò | masterpiece; famous work |
| 吞噬作用 | tūn shì zuò yòng | phagocytosis (ingesting and destroying foreign matter) |
| 吴作栋 | Wú Zuò dòng | Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004 |
| 周作人 | Zhōu Zuò rén | Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 鲁迅, academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution |
| 呼牛作马 | hū niú zuò mǎ | to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it; Insult me if you want, I don't care what you call me. |
| 命名作业 | mìng míng zuò yè | naming task |
| 启动作业 | qǐ dòng zuò yè | priming task |
| 唤作 | huàn zuò | be called; be known as |
| 回嗔作喜 | huí chēn zuò xǐ | to go from anger to happiness (idiom) |
| 国共合作 | guó gòng hé zuò | First United Front between Guomindang and Communist party, 1923-1927 |
| 国际合作 | guó jì hé zuò | international cooperation |
| 外典写作 | wài diǎn xiě zuò | apocryphal writings |
| 多工作业 | duō gōng zuò yè | multitasking |
| 多工运作 | duō gōng yùn zuò | multithreading |
