shǐ zuò yǒng zhě

始作俑者 (shǐ zuò yǒng zhě) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom); fig. the originator of an evil practice”.

Meanings

  1. 1lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom)
  2. 2fig. the originator of an evil practice

Characters in 始作俑者

始shǐ · to begin作zuō · (bound form) worker俑yǒng · wooden figures buried with the dead者zhě · (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...

Related words

开始to begin工作to work或者or者(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...作为one's conduct作(bound form) worker作to do; to engage in合作to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together动作movement; motion; action受害者casualty死者the dead作用to act on; to affect

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