曹操 cáo cāo

Cao Cao, late Han warlord; villain in Romance

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency 10345th word

Definitions

  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 cáo wèi, father of Emperor Cao Pi cáo pī
  2. 2. the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms sān guó yǎn yì

Characters

Character Meaning
surname Cao; class or grade; generation
to exercise; to drill (practice); to control