to bind up and take to the market (idiom); to take a prisoner to the town center for execution
曹白鱼曹白魚cao2 bai2 yu2
Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata); white herring; slender shad
曹不兴曹不興cao2 bu4 xing1
Cao Buxing or Ts'ao Pu-hsing (active c. 210-250), famous semi-legendary painter, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six dynasties 六朝四大家
曹参曹參cao2 can1
Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang's 劉邦|刘邦 side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争; also pr.
曹操曹操cao2 cao1
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; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
曹冲曹沖cao2 chong1
Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操
曹刚川曹剛川cao2 gang1 chuan1
Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader
曹靖华曹靖華cao2 jing4 hua2
Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Peking University and essayist
曹锟曹錕cao2 kun1
Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords
曹丕曹丕cao2 pi1
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
曹魏曹魏cao2 wei4
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
曹县曹縣cao2 xian4
Cao county in Heze 菏澤|菏泽, Shandong
曹雪芹曹雪芹cao2 xue3 qin2
Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦
曹禺曹禺cao2 yu2
Cao Yu (1910-1997), PRC dramatist
曹余章曹餘章cao2 yu2 zhang1
Cao Yuzhang (1924-), modern writer and publisher, author of narrative history 上下五千年
曹植曹植cao2 zhi2
Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
赴阴曹赴陰曹fu4 yin1 cao2
to enter hell
军曹鱼軍曹魚jun1 cao2 yu2
cobia or black kingfish (Rachycentron canadum)
聂姆曹娃聶姆曹娃nie4 mu3 cao2 wa2
Božena Němcová (1820-1862), Czech writer
三曹三曹san1 cao2
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