三國演義〔-国-义〕 saam¹ gwok³ jin² ji⁶ {Sān guó Yǎn yì}

1. Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature
2. a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, consistently portraying Liu Bei's Shu Han 劉備, 蜀漢, 蜀汉 as virtuous heroes and Cao Cao's Wei 曹操, 魏 as tyrannical villains