Translation

• 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

Examples

• 说曹操，曹操就到。
  Speak of the devil and he is sure to appear.