worker / workshop / (slang) troublesome / high-maintenance (person)
to do / to grow / to write or compose / to pretend / to regard as / to feel / writings or works

= + : Rosa Luxemburg and Zapatista Zebra are high-fiveing in the observatory's bathroom because they're growing so awesome Mohawk haircuts.
to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works

作 character breakdown

at first / suddenly / abruptly / to spread / (of hair) to stand on end / bristling

Mnemonic symbol: a Mohawk haircut. It fits the hair "to stand on end" and the character itself looks like a head with a Mohawk haircut facing towards the left.

James II of England (zh) tries out a Mohawk haircut (乍) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
"person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Rosa Luxemburg. She's quite radical, and her name starts with "r", just like "ren2". Also, 亻appears at the left-hand side of characters, and Rosa is a leftist as well.

Robinson Crusoe (r) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) are having their favorite snacks in the encampment's kitchen: Rosa is eating a banana (丿) and Robinson is eating a dinosaur bone (丨).

Characters with 作 as component

cable

Words with 作

contemptible / disgusting
serves you right for doing sth so stupid (Internet slang)
nonfeasance / omission (law)
China Writers Association (CWA) / abbr. for 中國作家協會|中国作家协会[Zhong1 guo2 Zuo4 jia1 Xie2 hui4]
the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930
China Writers Association (CWA) (abbr. for 中國作家協會|中国作家协会[Zhong1 guo2 Zuo4 jia1 Xie2 hui4])

Sentences with 作

xi̅ng
xing
pu̅
chéng
yín
hé
 
 
cǎi
hóng
jià
zuò
fe̅i
qiáo