Illustration: In a small ceramics studio, an artist shapes an imaginative clay creature with a teapot-shaped belly, long rabbit ears, and four stubby feet. Nearby sketch sheets contain several visibly different attempts at inventing the creature, with changing ear shapes and body proportions but no writing.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

創そう作さく

sousaku

to create an original work

Example sentences

  1. あなたは創作そうさくとノンフィクションのどちらが好すきですか。

    Which do you like better, fiction or non-fiction?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. この画家がかは美うつくしい絵画かいがを創作そうさくする。

    This artist creates beautiful paintings.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 言語げんごは、いかなる言葉ことばも必かならず個人こじんの心こころの創作そうさくとして飛とび出だしてくるという点てんで、ユニークである。

    Language is unique in that any statement must start out as the creation of an individual mind.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 創作

  • 創genesis; woundOnソウ・ショウKunつくる・はじめる・きず
  • 作make; productionOnサク・サKunつくる・つくり

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