三国时代 Three Kingdoms

Updated: Jul 9, 2023

Set in China, AD 169–280

Publication date: 14th century

Three Kingdoms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms

List of people of the Three Kingdoms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_people_of_the_Three_Kingdoms

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

罗贯中《三国演义》 (Simplified Text)

http://guoxue.lishichunqiu.com/gdxs/sanguoyanyi/

三国演义原文朗读 (Audio)

https://www.ximalaya.com/album/268522

Author

罗贯中 Luó GuànZhōng (c. 1330-c. 1400)

罗 luó gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift; (Chinese surname)

贯 guàn to pierce through; to pass through; to be stringed together; string of 1000 cash

曹魏 Cáo Wèi

曹操 cáocāo

曹 cáo class or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old); government department (old); (Chinese surname); Zhou Dynasty vassal state

操 cāo to grasp; to hold; to operate; to manage; to control; to steer; to exercise; to drill (practice); to play; to speak (a language)

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 三国演义

蜀漢 / 蜀汉 Shǔ Hàn

刘备 liúbèi

刘 liú (classical) a type of battle-ax; to kill; to slaughter; (Chinese surname)

备 bèi to prepare; get ready; to provide or equip

Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty

孫吳 / 孙吴 Sūn Wú

孙权 sūnquán

孙 sūn grandson; descendant; (Chinese surname)

权 quán authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary; (Chinese surname)

Sun Quan (reigned 222-252), southern warlord and king of state of Wu 吴 in the Three Kingdoms period

五虎将

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Tiger_Generals