(cáo) surname Cao; Zhou Dynasty vassal state
(cáo) class or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old); government department (old)
(cáobùxīng) Cao Buxing or Ts'ao Pu-hsing (active c. 210-250), famous semi-legendary painter, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six dynasties 六朝四大家
(cáopī) Cao Pi (187-226), second son of Cao Cao 曹操, king then emperor of Cao Wei 曹魏 from 220, ruled as Emperor Wen 魏文帝, also a noted calligrapher
(cáogāngchuān) Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader
(cáocāo) Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
(cáozhí) Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
(cáochōng) Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1]
(cáobáiyú) Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata); white herring; slender shad
(cáoyú) Cao Yu (1910-1997), PRC dramatist
(cáoxiàn) Cao county in Heze 菏澤|菏泽[He2 ze2], Shandong
(cáokūn) Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords
(cáoxuěqín) Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦
(cáojìnghuá) Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Beijing University and essayist
(cáoyúzhāng) Cao Yuzhang (1924-), modern writer and publisher, author of narrative history 上下五千年
(cáowèi) Cao Wei, the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms, established as a dynasty in 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕, son of Cao Cao, replaced by Jin dynasty in 265