始作俑者

shǐ zuò yǒng zhě

释义

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

始作俑者 的构成词

• 作 zuō: worker
• 作 zuò: to do; to engage in
• 者 zhě: (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...
• 俑 yǒng: wooden figures buried with the dead
• 始 shǐ: to begin