曹
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- 1. class or grade
- 2. generation
Words Containing 曹
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
market
(archaic) we
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
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
Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader
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]
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
Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操[cáo cāo]
Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata)
Cao Yu (1910-1997), PRC dramatist
Cao county in Heze 菏澤|菏泽[hé zé], Shandong
Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords
Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦[hóng lóu mèng]
Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Peking University and essayist
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]
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
to bind up and take to the market (idiom); to take a prisoner to the town center for execution
Božena Němcová (1820-1862), Czech writer
lit. Xiao's 蕭何|萧何[xiāo hé] governance followed by Cao 曹參|曹参[cáo cān] (idiom)
lit. speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives
see 說曹操曹操就到|说曹操曹操就到[shuō cáo cāo cáo cāo jiù dào]
to enter hell
live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom)
cobia or black kingfish (Rachycentron canadum)
hell
netherworld