- criminal ringleader, main offender (idiom); main culprit
- fig. main cause of a disaster
Characters
- 罪 (罪): guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin
- 魁 (魁): chief; head; outstanding; exceptional; stalwart
- 祸 (旤): old variant of 禍|祸[huo4]
- 首 (首): head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc
Resources
- Wiktionary: 罪魁祸首
- MDBG: 罪魁祸首
- Examples with 罪魁祸首 on Tatoeba
Examples
该报文章中将被告人描述成一个罪魁祸首，尽管他已经被证明是无辜的了。
听起来好像他是这场灾难的罪魁祸首。