始作俑者 — Chinese idiom
始作俑者
shǐ zuò yǒng zhě
Meaning
- (lit.) the first person to make funerary figurines
- (fig.) the originator of an evil practice
Character by character
- 始shǐto begin, to start; beginning
- 作zuòto make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
- 俑yǒngwooden figure buried with dead
- 者zhěthat which; they who; those who
Idioms sharing a character
- 一元复始 yī yuán fù shǐ
- 善始善终 shàn shǐ shàn zhōng
- 报本反始 bào běn fǎn shǐ
- 始终如一 shǐ zhōng rú yī
- 有始有终 yǒu shǐ yǒu zhōng
- 有始无终 yǒu shǐ wú zhōng
- 终而复始 zhōng ér fù shǐ
- 自始至终 zì shǐ zhì zhōng
- 周而复始 zhōu ér fù shǐ
- 并肩作战 bìng jiān zuò zhàn
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