zuo
See also: Zuo, zuó, zuò, zuō, zuǒ, and zu'o
Farefare
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /zúó/
Noun
zuo
- Variant of zuugo (“head”)
Mandarin
Romanization
zuo (zuo5 / zuo0, Zhuyin ˙ㄗㄨㄛ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 咗.
zuo
- Nonstandard spelling of zuō.
- Nonstandard spelling of zuó.
- Nonstandard spelling of zuǒ.
- Nonstandard spelling of zuò.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Middle English
Adverb
zuo
- so
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *tō, whence also Old English tō.
Preposition
zuo (+ dative)
- to
Descendants
- Middle High German: zuo
- Cimbrian: zo
- East Central German: zu
- German: zu
- Luxembourgish: zou, zu
- Vilamovian: cy
- Yiddish: צו (tsu)
Volapük
Etymology
zu + -o
Adverb
zuo
- (conjunctive) in addition