始作俑者

Traditional form:

始作俑者

Pinyin (reading):

shǐzuòyǒngzhě

Definitions:

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

Characters:

• 始 - to begin, to start; beginning
• 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
• 俑 - wooden figure buried with dead
• 者 - that which; they who; those who

Traditional characters:

• 始 - to begin, to start; beginning
• 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
• 俑 - wooden figure buried with dead
• 者 - that which; they who; those who