曹雪芹
Cáo Xuě qín
Pinyin

Definition

曹雪芹
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Cáo Xuě qín
  1. Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦[Hóng lóu Mèng]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

xià xuě
  1. 1 to snow
Xuě
  1. 1 surname Xue
xuě huā
  1. 1 snowflake
bīng xuě
  1. 1 ice and snow
Dà xuě
  1. 1 Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-21st December
Xiǎo xuě
  1. 1 Xiaoxue or Lesser Snow, 20th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 22nd November-6th December
Cáo Cāo
  1. 1 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
  2. 2 the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
Cáo Zhí
  1. 1 Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
huá xuě
  1. 1 to ski
  2. 2 skiing
ruì xuě
  1. 1 timely snow
bái xuě
  1. 1 snow
jī xuě
  1. 1 snow
  2. 2 snow cover
  3. 3 snow mantle
qín cài
  1. 1 celery (Apium graveolens)
yǔ jiā xuě
  1. 1 sleet
  2. 2 mixture of snow and rain
xuě rén
  1. 1 snowman
  2. 2 yeti
xuě zhàng
  1. 1 snow fight
  2. 2 snowball fight
xuě dì xuē
  1. 1 ugg boots
Xuě lí
  1. 1 Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Australia (Tw)
xuě bái
  1. 1 snow white
Xuě bì
  1. 1 Sprite (soft drink)

Idioms (14)

冰雪聪明
bīng xuě cōng ming
  1. 1 exceptionally intelligent (idiom)
各人自扫门前雪,莫管他家瓦上霜
gè rén zì sǎo mén qián xuě , mò guǎn tā jiā wǎ shàng shuāng
  1. 1 sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)
报仇雪耻
bào chóu xuě chǐ
  1. 1 to take revenge and erase humiliation (idiom)
报仇雪恨
bào chóu xuě hèn
  1. 1 to take revenge and wipe out a grudge (idiom)
程门立雪
Chéng mén lì xuě
  1. 1 lit. the snow piles up at Cheng Yi's door (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. deep reverence for one's master
绑赴市曹
bǎng fù shì cáo
  1. 1 to bind up and take to the market (idiom); to take a prisoner to the town center for execution
聚萤映雪
jù yíng yìng xuě
  1. 1 lit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom); fig. ambitious student from impoverished background
  2. 2 burning the midnight oil
萧规曹随
Xiāo guī Cáo suí
  1. 1 lit. Xiao's 蕭何|萧何[Xiāo Hé] governance followed by Cao 曹參|曹参[Cáo Cān] (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to strictly adhere to the policies of the predecessor
  3. 3 to follow precedent
身在曹营心在汉
shēn zài Cáo yíng xīn zài Hàn
  1. 1 live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom)
  2. 2 to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else
雪上加霜
xuě shàng jiā shuāng
  1. 1 to add hail to snow (idiom); one disaster on top of another
  2. 2 to make things worse in a bad situation
雪中送炭
xuě zhōng sòng tàn
  1. 1 lit. to send charcoal in snowy weather (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to provide help in sb's hour of need
雪泥鸿爪
xuě ní hóng zhǎo
  1. 1 a goose's footprint in the snow
  2. 2 vestiges of the past (idiom)
  3. 3 the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)
风花雪月
fēng huā xuě yuè
  1. 1 wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance
  2. 2 love affair
  3. 3 romance is in the air
  4. 4 dissipated life
鹅毛大雪
é máo dà xuě
  1. 1 goose feather snow (idiom)
  2. 2 big heavy snow fall

Sample Sentences

不拍不拍,我们先看吧。曹雪芹真是神了,一本书里,吃的、用的、住的都写得那么精致,这个大观园就是人们根据书里的描写建的。
bù pāi bù pāi ,wǒmen xiān kàn ba 。Cáo Xuěqín zhēnshì shén le ,yī běn shū lǐ ,chī de 、yòng de 、zhù de dōu xiě de nàme jīngzhì ,zhè ge dàguānyuán jiùshì rénmen gēnjù shū lǐ de miáoxiě jiàn de 。
Let's not take pictures. Let's look around first. Cao Xueqin was just amazing. In a single book he wrote so exquisitely about things for eating, using and living in. This Prospect Garden was built according to his description in the book.