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曹操

Cáo Cāo

2-character word

What 曹操 means

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 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕
2. the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三国演义

The characters in 曹操

• 曹cáoclass or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old)
• 操cāoto grasp; to hold; to operate

Example sentences

• 这是曹操的奸计。
  Zhè shì Cáo Cāo de jiānjì.
  This is Cao Cao's trickery.
• 说曹操，曹操就到。
  Shuō Cáo Cāo, Cáo Cāo jiù dào.
  Speak of the Devil and he doth appear.

Words containing 曹操

• 说曹操曹操就到shuō Cáo Cāo Cáo Cāo jiù dàolit. speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives; fig. speak of the devil and he doth appear
• 说曹操，曹操到shuō Cáo Cāo , Cáo Cāo dàosee 说曹操曹操就到