始作俑者

shǐ zuò yǒng zhě

Rare

Definitions

1. lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom)
2. fig. the originator of an evil practice

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Child Words of 始作俑者

worker

to do; to engage in

(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...

wooden figures buried with the dead

to begin