Keyword
class or grade
- ministers
- officials
- a company
- surname
- Frequency
- #1838
- Strokes
- 11
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曹
class or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old); government department (old)
曹操
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三国演义
曹丕
Cao Pi (187-226), second son of Cao Cao 曹操, king then emperor of Cao Wei 曹魏 from 220, ruled as Emperor Wen 魏文帝, also a noted calligrapher
曹雪芹
Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 红楼梦 (HónglóuMèng)
曹锟
Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords
曹魏
Cao Wei, the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms, established as a dynasty in 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕, son of Cao Cao, replaced by Jin dynasty in 265
曹禺
Cao Yu (1910-1997), PRC dramatist
曹县
Cao County or Caoxian, a county in Heze City 菏泽市 (HézéShì), Shandong
曹植
Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
曹刚川
Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader
曹靖华
Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Peking University and essayist
曹冲
Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操 (CáoCāo)
萧规曹随
lit. Xiao's 萧何 (XiāoHé) governance followed by Cao 曹参 (CáoCān) (idiom); fig. to strictly adhere to the policies of the predecessor; to follow precedent
阴曹地府
netherworld; Kingdom of the Underworld; Hades
阴曹
hell; the inferno
身在曹营心在汉
live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom); to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else
曹参
Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang's 刘邦 (LiúBāng) side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚汉战争 (ChǔHànZhànzhēng); also pr. CáoShēn