始作俑者(shǐ zuò yǒng zhě)

4 characters

(lit.) the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom)

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Word information

Pinyin
shǐ zuò yǒng zhě
Meaning
(lit.) the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom)
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Characters
4
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