创

chuàng is everywhere in modern Chinese — it's the verb of starting, founding, originating: 创造 (create), 创新 (innovate), 创业 (start a business), 创作 (creative work), 创立 (establish), 创办 (found), 创意 (creative idea), 创纪录 (set a record). The startup-economy vocabulary leans heavily on this character.

Creation and wounding share an etymology: both involve cutting. The right side 刂 is the knife radical. The older meaning was 'wound from a blade' (still alive as the alt reading chuāng); the metaphor extended to 'cutting open new ground = founding something new'. So 创业 is etymologically 'cutting open one's enterprise' — pioneering with a blade.

Two readings. chuàng (this entry, 4th tone) covers everything about creating, founding, initiating. The 创 reading (1st tone, see the chuāng entry) is the original 'wound / cut' sense, surviving in 创伤 (trauma), 创口 (wound), 创可贴 (Band-Aid), 重创 (heavy damage). If the word is medical or describes injury, chuāng; if it's about making something new, chuàng.