| ID | Chinese | Trad. | Pinyin | PlainPY | English Definition | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Chinese | Trad. | Pinyin | PlainPY | English Definition | ||
| 1 | 曹 | 曹 | cáo | cao2 | class or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old); government department (old); surname Cao; Zhou Dynasty vassal state | ||
| 2 | 曹操 | 曹操 | cáo cāo | Cao2 Cao1 | 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 三国演义 | ||
| 3 | 曹白鱼 | 曹白魚 | cáo bái yú | cao2 bai2 yu2 | Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata); white herring; slender shad | ||
| 4 | 曹不兴 | 曹不興 | cáo bù xīng | Cao2 Bu4 xing1 | 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 | ||
| 5 | 曹参 | 曹參 | cáo cān | Cao2 Can1 | Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang's 刘邦 [Liu2 Bang1] side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚汉战争 [Chu3 Han4 Zhan4 zheng1]; also pr. [Cao2 Shen1] | ||
| 6 | 曹冲 | 曹沖 | cáo chōng | Cao2 Chong1 | Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操 | ||
| 7 | 曹刚川 | 曹剛川 | cáo gāng chuān | Cao2 Gang1 chuan1 | Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader | ||
| 8 | 曹靖华 | 曹靖華 | cáo jìng huá | Cao2 Jing4 hua2 | Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Peking University and essayist | ||
| 9 | 曹锟 | 曹錕 | cáo kūn | Cao2 Kun1 | Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords | ||
| 10 | 曹丕 | 曹丕 | cáo pī | Cao2 Pi1 | 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 | ||
| 11 | 曹魏 | 曹魏 | cáo wèi | Cao2 Wei4 | 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 | ||
| 12 | 曹县 | 曹縣 | cáo xiàn | Cao2 xian4 | Cao county in Heze 菏泽 , Shandong | ||
| 13 | 曹雪芹 | 曹雪芹 | cáo xuě qín | Cao2 Xue3 qin2 | Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 红楼梦 | ||
| 14 | 曹禺 | 曹禺 | cáo yú | Cao2 Yu2 | Cao Yu (1910-1997), PRC dramatist | ||
| 15 | 曹余章 | 曹餘章 | cáo yú zhāng | Cao2 Yu2 zhang1 | Cao Yuzhang (1924-), modern writer and publisher, author of narrative history 上下五千年 | ||
| 16 | 曹植 | 曹植 | cáo zhí | Cao2 Zhi2 | Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操 , noted poet and calligrapher |
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