# 造 — Create

Frequency rank 330 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 放 (Release), less common than 村 (Village).

- On’yomi: ぞう
- Kun’yomi: つく
- Radical: 辵 Walk (Kangxi 162)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

A scooter on the left, with cow and gate on the right — a scooter drives a cow through a gate, creating a new delivery route that didn't exist before.

In words:

- 造り つくり — make up;structure;physique
- 造る つくる — to make;to create;to manufacture;to draw up;to write;to compose;to build;to coin;to cultivate;to org
- 造船 ぞうせん — shipbuilding

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