曹
Ancient forms
3 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
cáo cao2
- class or grade
- generation
- plaintiff and defendant (old)
- government department (old)
- surname Cao
- Zhou Dynasty vassal state
Example sentences
- Pinocchio, apologize for that, or look out!
- Speak of the devil and he is sure to appear.
Words with 曹
- 市曹 shìcáo market
- 阴曹 yīncáo hell
- 我曹 wǒcáo us
- 曹白鱼 cáobáiyú Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata)
- 军曹鱼 jūncáoyú cobia or black kingfish (Rachycentron canadum)
- 赴阴曹 fùyīncáo to enter hell
- 阴曹地府 yīncáodìfǔ netherworld
- 绑赴市曹 bǎngfùshìcáo to bind up and take to the market (idiom); to take a prisoner to the town center for execution
- 曹县 Cáoxiàn Cao county in Heze 菏泽 (Hé zé), Shandong
- 三曹 SānCáo 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
- 曹冲 CáoChōng Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操 (Cáo Cāo)
- 曹参 CáoCān Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang's 刘邦 (Liú Bāng) side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚汉战争 (Chǔ Hàn Zhàn zhēng)