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Chinese Character/Word:
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 始 | shǐ | - to begin - to start - then - only then |
| 作 | zuō | - (bound form) worker - (bound form) workshop - (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) |
| 作 | 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 |
| 俑 | yǒng | - wooden figures buried with the dead |
| 者 | 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
Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.
| 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 |