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Pronunciation

Peng'im: zao6
POJ: tsǎu
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

verb: to make; to build, to manufacture; to create
造

Several distinct pos blocks (core 'to make/build', literary 'to go to/attainments', dialectal Mandarin 'to eat/use up recklessly', and a Taiwan Mandarin slang contraction of 知道) all share the identical Teochew reading zao6, so which specific sense the Teochew reading is attested for is uncertain; the core 'to make/build' meaning was picked as most likely and most useful.

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