class or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old); government department (old)

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

Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang's 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争[Chu3 Han4 Zhan4 zheng1]; also pr. [Cao2 Shen1]

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

Cao Chong (196-208), son of Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1]

Cao County or Caoxian, a county in Heze City 菏澤市|菏泽市[He2 ze2 Shi4], Shandong

Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher

Cao Yu (1910-1997), PRC dramatist

Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords

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

Cao Buxing or Ts'ao Pu-hsing (active c. 210-250), famous semilegendary painter, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家

Cao Yuzhang (1924-1996), modern writer and publisher, author of Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History 上下五千年[Shang4 xia4 Wu3 Qian1 nian2]

Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader

see 曹妃甸區|曹妃甸区[Cao2 fei1 dian4 Qu1]

Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata); white herring; slender shad

Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦[Hong2 lou2 Meng4]

Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Peking University and essayist

Caofeidian, a district of Tangshan City 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 Shi4], Hebei