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Definition(s) for: 始作俑者

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
始作俑者 shǐ zuò yǒng zhě - lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom)
- fig. the originator of an evil practice

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 20,627 37,337 36,608

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
shǐ- to begin
- to start
- then
- only then
zuō- (bound form) worker
- (bound form) workshop
- (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
zuò- to do; to engage in
- to write; to compose
- to pretend; to feign
- to regard as; to consider to be
- to be; to act the part of
- to feel (itchy, nauseous etc)
- writings; works
yǒng- wooden figures buried with the dead
zhě- (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...
- (after a noun) person involved in ...
- -er
- -ist
- (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously)
- (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term)
- (old) (used at the end of a command)
- (old) this

Other Words Containing 始作俑者

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
始作俑者 - - 20,627 37,337 36,608