"曹" Chinese-English Dictionary

曹 cáo

Radical: 曰 (4 traits)
Number of strokes: 11

Cangjie: TWA 廿田日
Unicode: U+66F9

Decomposition Practice Sheet Dictionary of examples Synonyms

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
曹	cáo	class or grade / generation / plaintiff and defendant (old) / government department (old)	syn

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
曹丕	cáo pī	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
曹植	cáo zhí	Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
曹魏	cáo wèi	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
曹冲曹沖	cáo chōng	Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1]
曹操	cáo cāo	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 三國演義\|三国演义
曹参曹參	cáo cān	Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang's 劉邦\|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭\|楚汉战争[Chu3 Han4 Zhan4 zheng1] / also pr. [Cao2 Shen1]
曹锟曹錕	cáo kūn	Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords
曹县曹縣	cáo xiàn	Cao county in Heze 菏澤\|菏泽[He2 ze2], Shandong
曹禺	cáo yú	Cao Yu (1910-1997), PRC dramatist
曹雪芹	cáo xuě qín	Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢\|红楼梦[Hong2 lou2 Meng4]
曹白鱼曹白魚	cáo bái yú	Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad
曹不兴曹不興	cáo bù xīng	Cao Buxing or Ts'ao Pu-hsing (active c. 210-250), famous semilegendary painter, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家
曹刚川曹剛川	cáo gāng chuān	Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader
曹靖华曹靖華	cáo jìng huá	Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Peking University and essayist
曹余章曹餘章	cáo yú zhāng	Cao Yuzhang (1924-1996), modern writer and publisher, author of Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History 上下五千年[Shang4 xia4 Wu3 Qian1 nian2]

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
阴曹陰曹	yīn cáo	hell / the inferno	syn
三曹	sān cáo	the Three Caos (Cao Cao 曹操 and his sons Cao Pi 曹丕 and Cao Zhi 曹植), who established the Wei or Cao Wei dynasty 曹魏, and were all three noted poets and calligraphers
市曹	shì cáo	market / official in charge of small merchants
我曹	wǒ cáo	(archaic) we / us / (Internet slang) (substitute for 我肏[wo3 cao4]) fuck / WTF
赴阴曹赴陰曹	fù yīn cáo	to enter hell
军曹鱼軍曹魚	jūn cáo yú	cobia or black kingfish (Rachycentron canadum)
阴曹地府陰曹地府	yīn cáo dì fǔ	netherworld / Kingdom of the Underworld / Hades
绑赴市曹綁赴市曹	bǎng fù shì cáo	to bind up and take to the market (idiom) / to take a prisoner to the town center for execution
聂姆曹娃聶姆曹娃	niè mǔ cáo wá	Božena Němcová (1820-1862), Czech writer
萧规曹随蕭規曹隨	xiāo guī cáo suí	lit. Xiao's 蕭何\|萧何[Xiao1 He2] governance followed by Cao 曹參\|曹参[Cao2 Can1] (idiom) / fig. to strictly adhere to the policies of the predecessor / to follow precedent	syn