曹

cáo

Definitions

1. class or grade
2. generation

Words Containing 曹

• 萧规曹随 xiāo guī cáo suí: lit. Xiao's 蕭何|萧何[xiāo hé] governance followed by Cao 曹參|曹参[cáo cān] (idiom)
• 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
• 曹靖华 cáo jìng huá: Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Peking University and essayist
• 曹冲 cáo chōng: Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操[cáo cāo]
• 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
• 市曹 shì cáo: market
• 曹参 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[liú bāng] side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争[chǔ hàn zhàn zhēng]
• 聂姆曹娃 niè mǔ cáo wá: Božena Němcová (1820-1862), Czech writer
• 曹锟 cáo kūn: Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords
• 曹县 cáo xiàn: Cao county in Heze 菏澤|菏泽[hé zé], Shandong
• 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
• 曹刚川 cáo gāng chuān: Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader
• 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[hóng lóu mèng]
• 曹白鱼 cáo bái yú: Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata)
• 阴曹地府 yīn cáo dì fǔ: netherworld
• 军曹鱼 jūn cáo yú: cobia or black kingfish (Rachycentron canadum)
• 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
• 曹植 cáo zhí: Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
• 我曹 wǒ cáo: (archaic) we
• 说曹操曹操就到 shuō cáo cāo cáo cāo jiù dào: lit. speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives
• 绑赴市曹 bǎng fù shì cáo: to bind up and take to the market (idiom); to take a prisoner to the town center for execution
• 阴曹 yīn cáo: hell
• 身在曹营心在汉 shēn zài cáo yíng xīn zài hàn: live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom)
• 曹不兴 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
• 曹余章 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[shàng xià wǔ qiān nián]
• 赴阴曹 fù yīn cáo: to enter hell
• 曹禺 cáo yú: Cao Yu (1910-1997), PRC dramatist
• 说曹操，曹操到 shuō cáo cāo , cáo cāo dào: see 說曹操曹操就到|说曹操曹操就到[shuō cáo cāo cáo cāo jiù dào]