元凶
yuán xiōng
Pinyin

Definition

元凶
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yuán xiōng
  1. chief offender
  2. main culprit

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

元
Yuán
  1. 1 surname Yuan
  2. 2 the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
元宵
yuán xiāo
  1. 1 Lantern Festival
  2. 2 night of the 15th of the first lunar month
  3. 3 see also 元夜[yuán yè]
  4. 4 sticky rice dumplings
元宵节
Yuán xiāo jié
  1. 1 Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
元宝
Yuán bǎo
  1. 1 Yuanbao district of Dandong city 丹東市|丹东市[Dān dōng shì], Liaoning
元旦
Yuán dàn
  1. 1 New Year's Day
元月
Yuán yuè
  1. 1 first month (of either lunar or Western calendars)
元气
yuán qì
  1. 1 strength
  2. 2 vigor
  3. 3 vitality
  4. 4 (TCM) vital energy
元素
yuán sù
  1. 1 element
  2. 2 element of a set
  3. 3 chemical element
凶
xiōng
  1. 1 terrible
  2. 2 fearful
凶手
xiōng shǒu
  1. 1 murderer
  2. 2 assassin
凶残
xiōng cán
  1. 1 savage
  2. 2 cruel
  3. 3 fierce
凶狠
xiōng hěn
  1. 1 variant of 凶狠[xiōng hěn]
公元
gōng yuán
  1. 1 CE (Common Era)
  2. 2 Christian Era
  3. 3 AD (Anno Domini)
凶暴
xiōng bào
  1. 1 brutal
日元
Rì yuán
  1. 1 Japanese yen (unit of currency)
  2. 2 also written 日圓|日圆
次元
cì yuán
  1. 1 dimension (loanword, from Japanese)
欧元
Ōu yuán
  1. 1 euro (currency)
欧元区
Ōu yuán qū
  1. 1 Eurozone
状元
zhuàng yuán
  1. 1 top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system)
  2. 2 see 榜眼[bǎng yǎn] and 探花[tàn huā]
  3. 3 top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gāo kǎo]
  4. 4 (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field
  5. 5 leading light
美元
Měi yuán
  1. 1 American dollar
  2. 2 US dollar

Idioms (8)

一元复始
yī yuán fù shǐ
  1. 1 a new year begins (idiom)
元恶大憝
yuán è dà duì
  1. 1 arch-criminal and archenemy (idiom)
凶相毕露
xiōng xiàng bì lù
  1. 1 show one's ferocious appearance (idiom); the atrocious features revealed
  2. 2 with fangs bared
凶神恶煞
xiōng shén è shà
  1. 1 fiends (idiom); devils and monsters
凶多吉少
xiōng duō jí shǎo
  1. 1 everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom); inauspicious
  2. 2 everything points to disaster
行行出状元
háng háng chū zhuàng yuán
  1. 1 lit. in every trade, a master appears (idiom); fig. You can produce outstanding achievements in any task, provided you put it enough love and diligence
趋吉避凶
qū jí bì xiōng
  1. 1 to seek luck and avoid calamity (idiom)
逢凶化吉
féng xiōng huà jí
  1. 1 misfortune turns to blessing (idiom); to turn an inauspicious start to good account

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