做

to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)

"person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)

happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead

to work / to handle matters / to have a job

see 作主[zuo4 zhu3]

to conduct oneself / to behave with integrity

to act as host

impossible

to act as / used erroneously for 作為|作为

to become related by marriage / to marry

to buy and sell / to do business / to trade / to deal

lit. either don't do it, or don't rest (idiom) / fig. if you do it at all, you may as well go the whole hog / in for a penny, in for a pound

keep silent / not say a word

He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.

lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom) / fig. to do one's job mechanically / to hold a position passively