CREATE    創造

PRODUCE something BELIEVING that it has NEVER BEEN PRODUCED BEFORE.
ORIGINALITYPRODUCEGENERATEBRING INTO BEINGMAKEFABRICATEFASHIONBUILDCONSTRUCTDESIGNDEVISEORIGINATEFRAMEDEVELOPSHAPEFORMFORGECREATION
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The most general word is probably wéi 為 and this is sometimes used to refer to the act of cultural invention or creation, and the connotation may be positive or negative. The word focusses on the act of making something as such rather than the product as such. 2. Zuò 作 (ant. shù 述 "transmit") focusses on an autonomous initiative being taken, and the word can refer to a commendable act of creation as well as a reprehensible act of political disobedience. The word focusses on the product resulting of the action. 3. Zào 造 is prototypically to fashion in the manner of a potter or founder, but the word often has a nuance of the arbitrary and comes to mean something like "fabricate". See also PRODUCE 4. Chuàng 創 (ant. jì 繼 "continue a line") is a rare word referring to the initiative to start something. 5. Zào huà 造化 refers to both the process of creation, and of spontaneous cosmic transformation.
Modern Chinese Criteria
創造 創作 制造 造成 締造 創設 創制 始創 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • FAKE　CREATE SOMETHING WHICH PRETENDS TO BE WHAT IT IS NOT. (anc: 14/0, child: 0)
  • INVENT　CREATE as the FIRST PERSON to INVENT. (anc: 14/0, child: 0)
Antonym
  • COPYIMITATE something so as to PRODUCE something BASICALLY RESEMBLING.
  • TRANSMITRECORD OR REPORT so as to CAUSE LATER GENERATIONS TO KNOW something.
See also
  • PROVIDEPRODUCE, OR CAUSE it TO BE POSSIBLE TO USE, something USEFUL OR to MOVE something USEFUL to a certain PLACE WHERE it is NEEDED.
  • INVENTORSBIOGRAPHIES:
  • ESTABLISHCAUSE TO BECOME:come to ENDURINGLY EXIST.
Hypernym
  • PRODUCE　ACT so as to DELIBERATELY CAUSE something to BEGIN to EXIST. (anc: 12/0, child: 17)
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    CREATE

    creare is to bring something into existence by one's own act of will and creative power.

    gignere is to generate someting as part of a natural process like parturition.

    generare represents the process of natural procreation or parturition as something divine, and the word can also be used in figurative senses when it is a divine or spiritual variant of creare.

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p.

  • The Ambivalence of Creation ( PUETT 2001) p.

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 1.1975

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 4.1194

    KREATIVITAET

  • "Sachwoerterbuch zum Alten China" ( UNGER SACH) p.

    ERFINDUNGEN

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 69

    1. 刱 and 創 write the same word. This needs further investigation.

  • Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary ( TENG SHOU-HSIN 1996) p. 485

  • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( BORCHERT 2005) p.

    CREATIVITY

  • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 6.520

    WERK (WORK OF ART)

  • 跟我學同義詞 ( CAI SHAOWEI 2010) p. 75

  • Quiddities. An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary ( QUINE 1987) p. 37

    • Words (24 items)

    作  zuò OC: tsaaɡs MC: tsuo̝
    作  zuò OC: tsaals MC: tsɑ
    作  zuò OC: tsaaɡ MC: tsɑk 75 Attributions

    Zuò 作 (ant. shù 述"transmit") focusses on an autonomous initiative being taken, and the word can refer to a commendable act of creation as well as a reprehensible act of political disobedience. The word focusses on the product resulting of the action.

      Word relations
    • Object: 法/LAW The current general word for a law, a legal system or any legal provision of any kind is fǎ 法.
    • Synon: 造/CREATE Zào 造 is prototypically to fashion in the manner of a potter or founder, but the word often has a nuance of the arbitrary and comes to mean something like "fabricate". See also PRODUCE
    • Oppos: 述/TRANSMIT Shù 述 (ant. zuò 作 "create") is to pass on something created by someone else.
    • Oppos: 循/CONFORM

      Syntactic words
    • nabactbe created
    • nobjectcreation =所作
    • vadVas a (creative) innovationCH
    • vt(oN)frame or create new ones of the contextually determinate kind
    • vt[oN]create things, originate things
    • vtoNset up, originate (something), create, invent; produce; of texts: compose
    • vtoNconativework towards the creation ofCH
    • vtoNmiddle voicebe created; be composed
    • vttoN1.+N2changemake into
    • vttoN1.+N2perfectiveto create (something N1) (for somebody N2)
    造  zào OC: sɡuuʔ MC: dzɑu 30 Attributions

    Zào 造 is prototypically to fashion in the manner of a potter or founder, but the word often has a nuance of the arbitrary and comes to mean something like "fabricate". See also PRODUCE

      Word relations
    • Synon: 立/CREATE
    • Synon: 作 / 作 / 作/CREATE Zuò 作 (ant. shù 述"transmit") focusses on an autonomous initiative being taken, and the word can refer to a commendable act of creation as well as a reprehensible act of political disobedience. The word focusses on the product resulting of the action.

      Syntactic words
    • vt(oN)create the contextually determinate N
    • vtoNmake up; fashion, create; invent QIMINYAOSHU 蔡倫立意造紙
    • vtoNpassivebe created from/by
    為  wéi OC: ɢʷal MC: ɦiɛ 12 Attributions

    The most general word is probably wéi 為 and this is sometimes used to refer to the act of cultural invention or creation, and the connotation may be positive or negative. The word focusses on the act of making something as such rather than the product as such.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNfigurativePRODUCE> to invent, to create for the first time; create anew; create out of nothing
    • vtoNpassivebe createdLZ
    • vttoN1.+N2to create N2 for N1LZ
    造化  zào huà OC: sɡuuʔ hŋʷraals MC: dzɑu hɣɛ 11 Attributions

    Zào huà 造化 refers to both the process of creation, and of spontaneous cosmic transformation.

      Syntactic words
    • NPabprocesscreation and transformation, creative transformation
    • VP[adN]the fashioner and transformer of things (short for 造化者): the creator
    • VPicreate and transform things; create transformations
    • VPtoNcreate and transform
    造化者  zào huà zhě OC: sɡuuʔ hŋʷraals kljaʔ MC: dzɑu hɣɛ tɕɣɛ 5 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Synon: 造化/CREATE Zào huà 造化 refers to both the process of creation, and of spontaneous cosmic transformation.

      Syntactic words
    • NPagentthe agent that creates and transforms, fashions things: the creator
    造作  zào zuò OC: sɡuuʔ tsaaɡ MC: dzɑu tsɑk 5 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNcreate
    • vt[oN]create things
    創  chuàng OC: skhraŋs MC: ʈʂhi̯ɐŋ 5 Attributions

    Chuàng 創 (ant. jì 繼 "continue a line") is a rare word referring to the initiative to start something.

      Word relations
    • Object: 業/OFFICE Yè 業 refers to the traditional profession of a person and does not normally or necessarily relate to a place or to the bureaucratic system.
    • Synon: 立/ESTABLISH The current general word for setting up anything abstract or concrete is lì 立 and the almost equally common shè 設.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcreate, start up; write up from scratch
    作為  zuò wéi OC: tsaaɡs ɢʷal MC: tsuo̝ ɦiɛ
    作為  zuò wéi OC: tsaals ɢʷal MC: tsɑ ɦiɛ
    作為  zuò wéi OC: tsaaɡ ɢʷal MC: tsɑk ɦiɛ 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNcreate; invent
    立  lì OC: ɡ-rub MC: lip 4 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Synon: 造/CREATE Zào 造 is prototypically to fashion in the manner of a potter or founder, but the word often has a nuance of the arbitrary and comes to mean something like "fabricate". See also PRODUCE

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcause to be established> invent
    生  shēng MC: sraeng OC: sraaŋ 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcreate, cause to exist on earthCH
    咒作  zhòu zuò OC: tjus tsaaɡ MC: tɕɨu tsɑk 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativecreate by incantation
    造物  zào wù MC: dzawX mjut OC: sɡuuʔ mɯd 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabcreationCH
    • VP[adN]creator; CreatorCH
    興  xìng 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNbring about, make ariseCH
    作造  zuò zào OC: tsaaɡs sɡuuʔ MC: tsuo̝ dzɑu
    作造  zuò zào OC: tsaals sɡuuʔ MC: tsɑ dzɑu
    作造  zuò zào OC: tsaaɡ sɡuuʔ MC: tsɑk dzɑu 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNinvent and create
    制  zhì 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcreate, write, composeCH
    撰  zhuàn OC: sɡroonʔ MC: ɖʐɣan 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcreate and form (e.g. battle array)
    父  fù OC: baʔ MC: bi̯o 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • npost-Ncreator of N; initiator (possibly to be read in the third tone, although the derivation is not so neat in that case)
    生  shēng MC: sraeng OC: sraaŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • DELETEcreate, cause to exist on earthCH
    • vtoNpassivebe createdDS
    緯  wěi MC: hjw+jH OC: ɢuls 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNproduce texture> create, put together (text)CH
    創  chuàng OC: skhraŋs MC: ʈʂhi̯ɐŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcreate from scratch, build up ZGC: 刱邑"establish a city"
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VP[adN]creator; CreatorCH
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcreate, cause to exist on earthCH
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNproduce texture> create, put together (text)CH
    制為  zhì wéi OC: kjeds ɢʷal MC: tɕiɛi ɦiɛ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNcreate as a social institution, institute