始作俑者

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lit. the first person to bury funerary dolls (idiom) / fig. the originator of an evil practice
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lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom) / fig. the originator of an evil practice

Characters and words in 始作俑者

始
shǐ = sh + Ø3
to begin / to start / then / only then
始 = 台 + 女 : In the space station Sherlock Holmes and Bessie Coleman are shaking hands over a counter. After their long negotiations this could be the start of a wonderful business relationship.
作
zuo̅ = zu + o1
worker / workshop / (slang) troublesome / high-maintenance (person)
作
zuò = zu + o4
to do / to grow / to write or compose / to pretend / to regard as / to feel / writings or works
作 = 乍 + 亻 : Rosa Luxemburg and Zapatista Zebra are high-fiveing in the observatory's bathroom because they're growing so awesome Mohawk haircuts.
作
zuò = zu + o4
to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works
俑
yǒng = yu + (e)ng3
wooden figures buried with the dead
者
zhě = zh + e3
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this
者 = ⺹ + 日 : Mnemonic symbol: the sun (日) is wearing a crown (⺹). This reminds me of Louis XIV, le Roi Soleil, the Sun King, which will thus be the mnemonic symbol for 者. The crown (⺹) wearing sun (日), the Sun King (者) and James II of England (zh) are taking part in a writing contest in the elevator's living room (e3) to see who of them is the best author (作者).

Words with 始作俑者

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