罪魁祸首 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 罪魁禍首 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. zuìkuíhuòshǒu ㄗㄨㄟˋ ㄎㄨㄟˊ ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄡˇ criminal ringleader main offender main culprit main cause of a disaster idiom Character by character 罪(zuì)guilt 魁(kuí)chief 祸(huò)disaster 首(shǒu)head A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT