音読み: ゾウ
訓読み: つくる
画数: 10
部首: しんにょう（⻌）
Meaning
Make / Build / Create / Construct
- Basic forms
- 造る — to make; to create; to build / base form
- 造ります — makes; creates / masu form
- 造った — made; created / ta form
- 造って — making and … / te-form
- 造らない — do not make / negative
- 造れば — if (you) make / conditional
- Common uses
- 酒を造る — to brew sake
- 船を造る — to build a ship
- More
- 手作業で造った — made by hand
造る（つくる） is a godan verb. It is often used for **manufacturing, brewing, or large-scale creation**, and contrasts with 作る, which is more general and everyday.
- 建造 — construction
- 製造 — manufacture
- 造船 — shipbuilding
- 構造 — structure
- 改造 — modification / remodeling
- 酒造 — sake brewing
造 combines 告 (to proclaim or announce) with the radical ⻌ (movement, path). Together, it expresses the idea of going forth intentionally to make or construct. It is widely used in technical, industrial, and structural contexts.