曹参
Cáo Cān
Pinyin

Definition

曹参
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Cáo Cān
  1. 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]
  2. also pr. [Cáo Shēn]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (11)

曹操
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
曹植
Cáo Zhí
  1. 1 Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
我曹
wǒ cáo
  1. 1 (archaic) we
  2. 2 us
  3. 3 (Internet slang) (substitute for 我肏[wǒ cào]) fuck
  4. 4 WTF
曹
Cáo
  1. 1 surname Cao
  2. 2 Zhou Dynasty vassal state
曹丕
Cáo Pī
  1. 1 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
曹参
Cáo Cān
  1. 1 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]
  2. 2 also pr. [Cáo Shēn]
曹冲
Cáo Chōng
  1. 1 Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操[Cáo Cāo]
曹县
Cáo xiàn
  1. 1 Cao county in Heze 菏澤|菏泽[Hé zé], Shandong
曹雪芹
Cáo Xuě qín
  1. 1 Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦[Hóng lóu Mèng]
曹魏
Cáo Wèi
  1. 1 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
阴曹
yīn cáo
  1. 1 hell
  2. 2 the inferno

Idioms (3)

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
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

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