Characters

• 始 (始): to begin; to start; then; only then
• 作 (作): (bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
• 俑 (俑): wooden figures buried with the dead
• 者 (者): (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this

Resources

• Wiktionary: 始作俑者
• MDBG: 始作俑者
• Examples with 始作俑者 on Tatoeba

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