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作家

zuò jiā

HSK 2 · word 1236 of 3,000

Meaning

Measure word

个 gè or 位 wèi

Example sentence

他是作家。

tā shì zuò jiā

He's an author.

Characters in 作家

作 to compose plus 家, which here marks a practitioner rather than a household. 画家 and 科学家 use the same suffix.

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