| 寇 | |||
| bandits, thieves; enemy; invade | |||
| Radical | 宀 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 8 | Total Strokes | 11 |
| Mandarin reading | koù | Cantonese reading | kau3 |
| Japanese on reading | kou | Japanese kun reading | adasuru ada |
| Korean reading | kwu | Vietnamese reading | khấu |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 宼 | ||
| 寇 | [ koù ] old variant of 寇[kou4] |
| 寇 | [ koù ] old variant of 寇[kou4] |
| 寇准 | [ koù zhǔn ] Kou Zhun (961-1023), Northern Song politician and poet |
| ⇒ 胜者王侯败者寇 | [ shèng zhě wáng hoú baì zhě koù ] the winners become princes and marquises; the losers are vilified as bandits (idiom), history is written by the victors |
| ⇒ 成则为王，败则为寇 | [ chéng zé weí wáng baì zé weí koù ] lit. called a king if successful, called a bandit if defeated (idiom), fig. losers are always in the wrong |
| ⇒ 成王败寇 | [ chéng wáng baì koù ] see 成則為王，敗則為寇|成则为王，败则为寇[cheng2 ze2 wei2 wang2 , bai4 ze2 wei2 kou4] |
| ⇒ 成者为王，败者为寇 | [ chéng zhě weí wáng baì zhě weí koù ] see 成則為王，敗則為寇|成则为王，败则为寇[cheng2 ze2 wei2 wang2 , bai4 ze2 wei2 kou4] |
| ⇒ 穷寇 | [ qióng koù ] cornered enemy |
| ⇒ 落草为寇 | [ luò caǒ weí koù ] to take to the woods to become an outlaw (idiom) |
| ⇒ 视如寇仇 | [ shì rú koù choú ] to regard as an enemy |
| ⇒ 豆寇年华 | [ doù koù nián huá ] used erroneously for 豆蔻年華|豆蔻年华, a girl's teenage years (idiom); maidenhood, a budding beauty |