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罪魁祸首

zuì kuí huò shǒu

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 罪魁禍首

罪魁祸首 (zuì kuí huò shǒu) means "criminal ringleader, main offender (idiom); main culprit; fig. main cause of a disaster". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 罪魁祸首 means

1. idiomcriminal ringleader; main offender; main culprit; main cause of a disaster

The characters in 罪魁祸首

• 罪zuìguilt; crime; fault
• 魁kuíchief; head; outstanding
• 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.

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