Illustration: On the covered balcony of a Japanese apartment, a woman kneels beside a small wooden cat house she has built. She is tightening the final screw on its roof, with a hand saw, measuring square, and matching timber offcuts spread on a protective sheet nearby.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

自じ作さく

jisaku

to make something oneself

Example sentences

彼かれらはパソコンを趣味しゅみで自作じさくしている。
They make their own computers as a hobby.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼かれはその少女しょうじょのために自作じさくの曲きょくを一曲弾いっきょくひいた。
He played the girl a piece of music of his own writing.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
以降いこうは自作じさくのシナリオを自みずからの資金繰しきんぐりで監督かんとくする独立映画作家どくりつえいがさっかとなった。
He went on to become an independent film maker who directed his own screenplays using his own funds.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 自作

自oneselfOnジ・シKunみずから・おのずから・おのずと
作make; productionOnサク・サKunつくる・つくり

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