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祸首

huò shǒu

2-character word Traditional 禍首

What 祸首 means

1. chief offender
2. main culprit

The characters in 祸首

• 祸huòdisaster; misfortune; calamity
• 首shǒuhead; chief; first (occasion, thing etc)

Example sentences

• 我们都不认为他是事故的罪魁祸首。
  Wǒmen dōu bù rènwéi tā shì shìgù de zuìkuíhuòshǒu.
  None of us thought he was to blame for the accident.
• 听起来好像他是这场灾难的罪魁祸首。
  Tīngqilai hǎoxiàng tā shì zhè chǎng zāinàn de zuìkuíhuòshǒu.
  It sounds as if he were to blame for the disaster.
• 这前所未闻, 犯罪嫌疑人的律师竟然是真正的罪魁祸首。
  Zhè qiánsuǒwèiwén, fànzuì xiányírén de lǜshī jìngrán shì zhēnzhèng de zuìkuíhuòshǒu.
  It's totally without precedent for the suspect's attorney to be the true culprit.
• 该报文章中将被告人描述成一个罪魁祸首，尽管他已经被证明是无辜的了。
  Gāi bào wénzhāng zhōngjiàng bèigàorén miáoshù chéng yī gè zuìkuíhuòshǒu, jǐnguǎn tā yǐjīng bèi zhèngmíng shì wúgū de le.
  The news article painted the defendant as a guilty man, even though he had been proven innocent.

Words starting with 祸首

• 祸首罪魁huò shǒu zuì kuísee 罪魁祸首

Words containing 祸首

• 罪魁祸首zuì kuí huò shǒu(idiom) criminal ringleader; main offender; main culprit; main cause of a disaster