曹 cáo

1. cáo proper noun Cao
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '曹' n 5; Unihan '曹')
2. cáo pronoun a company; a class; a generation
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 尔曹 you [plural] (Guoyu '曹' pronoun)
3. cáo noun a companion
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 同伴 (Guoyu '曹' n 3)
4. cáo noun a government department; a government office
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '曹' n 2; Unihan '曹')
5. cáo noun a a party to a law suit
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '曹' n 1)
6. cáo noun Cao
   Domain: History 历史 , Subdomain: China
   Notes: A historic state (Guoyu '曹' n 4)
7. cáo adverb together; simultaneously
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '曹' adv)

Contained in

• 阴曹(陰曹) hell
• 说曹操曹操就到(說曹操曹操就到) speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives; speak of the devil and he doth appear
• 市曹 market; official in charge of small merchants
• 军曹鱼(軍曹魚) cobia or black kingfish (Rachycentron canadum)
• 绑赴市曹(綁赴市曹) to bind up and take to the market; to take a prisoner to the town center for execution
• 曹国舅(曹國舅) Cao Guo Jiu
• 萧规曹随(蕭規曹隨) Xiao'sgovernance followed by Cao; to strictly adhere to the policies of the predecessor
• 阴曹地府(陰曹地府) netherworld; Kingdom of the Underworld
• 我曹 us ; WTF
• 身在曹营心在汉(身在曹營心在漢) live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp; to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else
• 曹白鱼(曹白魚) Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata); white herring; slender shad
• 尔曹(爾曹) you [plural]
• 功曹 police chief
• 赴阴曹(赴陰曹) to enter hell

Also contained in

曹叡 、 曹余章 、 曹靖华 、 曹魏 、 曹丕 、 曹源一滴水 、 击鼓骂曹 、 左曹卫 、 曹参 、 曹锟 、 曹奂 、 曹冲 、 曹节 、 三曹 、 曹国 、 曹雪芹 、 曹髦 、 曹延恭 、 曹禺 、 曹芳 、 聂姆曹娃 、 曹刚川 、 曹植 、 曹山 、 曹县 、 曹公 、 曹操 、 曹不兴

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷三十九 志第二十九 百官上 Volume 39 Treatises 29: Officials 1 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 171
• 卷二十四 志第十四 職官 Volume 24 Treatises 14: Government Service Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 96
• 卷二十 魏書二十 武文世王公傳 Volume 20: Book of Wei 20 - Biographies of nobles in Emperors Wu and Wen's time Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 89
• 卷四十九上　　　志第三十九上　百官四上 Volume 49a Treatises 44: Official Posts 4a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 81
• 卷十四 Scroll 14 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 75
• 卷28　志第23 百官下 Volume 28 Treatises 23: Government Offices 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 74
• 第五十一回 Chapter 51 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 70
• 卷27　志第22 百官中 Volume 27 Treatises 22: Government Offices 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 66
• 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 57
• 卷113 官氏志九 Volume 113 Treatise 9: Official Ranks Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 55

Collocations

• 曹伯 (曹伯) 曹伯使其世子射姑來朝 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 220
• 曹人 (曹人) 曹人疾共公侵刻下民 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧曹‧下泉 Lessons from the states - Odes of Cao - Bu Quan — count: 79
• 葬曹 (葬曹) 葬曹桓公 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 35
• 伐曹 (伐曹) 宋人伐曹 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 34
• 围曹 (圍曹) 宋人圍曹 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 14
• 执曹 (執曹) 執曹伯 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 14
• 侵曹 (侵曹) 戎侵曹 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 13
• 曹师 (曹師) 莊之族以曹師伐之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 12
• 曹羁 (曹羈) 曹羈出奔陳 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 10
• 曹君 (曹君) 我執曹君而分曹 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 9