Skip to content
Part ofPart of the Fluidity family
/
Guide
Entry
做zuò好hǎo做zuò歹dǎi
  1. to persuade using all possible arguments (idiom); to act good cop and bad cop in turn

The Semantide dictionary follows a thread — from a word to its readings, forms, characters, and the sentences it lives in.

Part of the family

Dictionaries

  • 日本語 · Japanese
  • 中文 · Chinese
  • Français · French
  • English

Learn

  • Search guide
  • Japanese vocabulary
  • Questions
  • Our approach

Project

  • Data & licences

Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

Characters in this word

3
做
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to make; to produce, to write; to compose, to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc), (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc), (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for, to assume (an air or manner)

Pinyin
zuò
Strokes
11
Frequency
37 of 2500
Words starting with 做Words ending in 做Anywhere in a word
好
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

good, appropriate; proper, all right!, (before a verb) easy to, (before a verb) good to, (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so, (verb complement indicating completion), (of two people) close; on intimate terms, (after a form of address) hello

Pinyin
hǎo
Strokes
6
Frequency
11 of 2500
Words starting with 好Words ending in 好Anywhere in a word
歹
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

bad, wicked, evil, Kangxi radical 78

Pinyin
dǎi
Strokes
4
Words starting with 歹Words ending in 歹Anywhere in a word