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)

Yuán
  1. 1 surname Yuan
  2. 2 the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
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
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
Yuán bǎo
  1. 1 Yuanbao district of Dandong city 丹東市|丹东市[Dān dōng shì], Liaoning
Yuán dàn
  1. 1 New Year's Day

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