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surname Cao / Zhou Dynasty vassal state
Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad
market / official in charge of small merchants
(archaic) we / us / (Internet slang) (substitute for 我肏[]) fuck / WTF
to bind up and take to the market (idiom) / to take a prisoner to the town center for execution
lit. speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives / fig. speak of the devil and he doth appear
see 說曹操曹操就到|说曹操曹操就到[]
to enter hell
live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom) / to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else
cobia or black kingfish (Rachycentron canadum)
hell / the inferno
netherworld / Kingdom of the Underworld / Hades
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 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
Cao Buxing or Ts'ao Pu-hsing (active c. 210-250), famous semilegendary painter, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家
Cao Pi (187-226), second son of Cao Cao 曹操, king then emperor of Cao Wei 曹魏 from 220, ruled as Emperor Wen 魏文帝, also a noted calligrapher
Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader
Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang's 劉邦|刘邦[] side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争[] / also pr. []
see 曹妃甸區|曹妃甸区[]
Caofeidian, a district of Tangshan City 唐山市[], Hebei
Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操[]
Cao Yu (1910-1997), PRC dramatist
Cao County or Caoxian, a county in Heze City 菏澤市|菏泽市[], Shandong
Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords
Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦[]
Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Peking University and essayist
Cao Yuzhang (1924-1996), modern writer and publisher, author of Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History 上下五千年[]
Cao Wei, the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms, established as a dynasty in 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕, son of Cao Cao, replaced by Jin dynasty in 265
the Three Caos (Cao Cao 曹操 and his sons Cao Pi 曹丕 and Cao Zhi 曹植), who established the Wei or Cao Wei dynasty 曹魏, and were all three noted poets and calligraphers
Božena Němcová (1820-1862), Czech writer
lit. Xiao's 蕭何|萧何[] governance followed by Cao 曹參|曹参[] (idiom) / fig. to strictly adhere to the policies of the predecessor / to follow precedent
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