从起源来说,“作”字出现很早,甲骨文中就有,而“做”字则出现较晚,明代梅膺祚编撰的《字汇》才收入。《字汇》解释“做”字时说:“做,俗作字。”意思是,“做”是“作”的俗字。俗字开始是手头写的不规范的字,后来渐渐进入书面语。在方言中,有的地方“作”跟“做”不同音,而普通话中“作”跟“做”读音相同。在古代流传下来的“四字格”成语 From the origin, “make ” appears very early, there is in Oracle, but “do ” character appear later, Ming Dynasty Mei Ying 祚 compiled “vocabulary” before income. “Words” to explain “do ” when the words: “do, vulgar words. ” Meaning, “do ” is Beginning of the vulgar word is written on the non-standard words, and later gradually into the written language. In dialects, some places have different sounds for “” and “do ”, while “ma ” for mandarin has the same pronunciation as “do ”. In ancient times handed down from the “four-character lattice” idioms