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Definitions
1. lit. the first person to bury funerary dolls (idiom)
2. fig. the originator of an evil practice
Components
始
shǐ
–
to begin
作
zuò
–
to do
俑
yǒng
–
wooden figures buried with the dead
者
zhě
–
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...