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始作俑者
shǐ zuò yǒng zhě
What 始作俑者 means
- (lit.) the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom)
- (fig.) the originator of an evil practice
The characters in 始作俑者
- 始shǐto begin; to start; then
- 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign
- 俑yǒngwooden figures buried with the dead
- 者zhě(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er
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