to make [something] / to cook / to write a literary work / to grow, to raise / to cultivate ability, to train / to draw up, form, establish / to make an acquaintance

作る: make - make a small thing, grow vegetables / 創る: create - originate, bring into existence / 造る: build, construct - build a house, or a building

a tub, basin, barrel, or other item made of thin and bent cypress shakes

dried fish, salted or just air-dried / (more generally) something dried, such as dried goods or dried flowers

string / pimp

skillful, dexterous

good at

skillful, dexterous

(rare) skill, dexterity / flattery (from being told how skillful one is, even if one isn't) / a person with the seventh dan in the games of shogi or go

(obsolete) same as jōzu reading above