Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- cáo
- Cáo
English
- ministry officials
- surname Cao
- class or grade
- a surname, usually transliterated as "Tso" or "Cho"
- surname
- Zhou Dynasty vassal state
- generation
- plaintiff and defendant (old)
- government department (old)
粵語
- 姓
As a component in · 49
Words containing 曹
- 曹操cou4 cou1
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
- 市曹si5 cou4
market
- 曹白cou4 baak6
elongate ilisha; Chinese herring; slender shad
- 曹參cou4 sam1
Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang's 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争[Chu3 Han4 Zhan4 zheng1]
- 陰曹jam1 cou4
hell
- 我曹ngo5 cou4
(archaic) we
- 三曹saam1 cou4
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
- 曹縣cou4 jyun6
Cao County or Caoxian, a county in Heze City 菏澤市|菏泽市[He2 ze2 Shi4], Shandong
- 爾曹ji5 cou4
you (plural)
- 曹沖cou4 cung1
Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1]
- 軍曹魚gwan1 cou4 jyu2
cobia or black kingfish (Rachycentron canadum)
- 曹白魚cou4 baak6 jyu2
Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata)
- 曹丕cou4 pei1
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
- 曹錕cou4 kwan1
Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords
- 曹不興cou4 bat1 hing3
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
- 曹魏cou4 ngai6
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
- 赴陰曹fu6 jam1 cou4
to enter hell
- 曹植cou4 zik6
Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
- 陰曹地府jam1 cou4 dei6 fu2
netherworld
- 曹禺cou4 jyu4
Cao Yu (1910-1997), PRC dramatist
- 曹餘章cou4 jyu4 zoeng1
Cao Yuzhang (1924-1996), modern writer and publisher, author of Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History 上下五千年[Shang4 xia4 Wu3 Qian1 nian2]
- 曹剛川cou4 gong1 cyun1
Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader
- 曹靖華cou4 zing6 waa4
Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Peking University and essayist
- 曹妃甸cou4 fei1 din6
see 曹妃甸區|曹妃甸区[Cao2 fei1 dian4 Qu1]