| 商纣王 |
Shāng Zhòu Wáng |
King Zhou of Shang (11th century BC), notorious as a cruel tyrant |
| 商 |
Shāng |
Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC) / surname Shang |
| 商 |
shāng |
commerce / merchant / dealer / to consult / 2nd note in pentatonic scale / quotient (as in 智商, intelligence quotient) |
| 纣 |
Zhòu |
Zhou, pejorative name given posthumously to the last king of the Shang dynasty, King Zhou of Shang 商纣王 (the name refers to a crupper 纣, the piece of horse tack most likely to be soiled by the horse) |
| 纣 |
zhòu |
crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail) |
| 王 |
Wáng |
surname Wang |
| 王 |
wáng |
king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great |
| 王 |
wàng |
(literary) (of a monarch) to reign over (a kingdom) |