First opened Friday, December 14, 2012
作り
つくり
- tail-high (odaka): falls after mora 3
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
make up, structure, physique
Tsukuri is the continuative stem of the verb 作る (tsukuru, “to make, to produce, to manufacture”).
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 作
In a sentence
彼女の顔のつくりの中で目が一番いい。
Her eyes are her best feature.
芝刈り機が簡素な作りの荷車に積んである。
Some lawn equipment is loaded into the jerry-built cart.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 作る (tsukuru, “to make, to produce, to manufacture”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 作り (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.