康熙 (Kāngxī): Kangxi (1654–1722), reign title of the fourth Qing emperor Xuanye (reigned 1661–1722), longest-reigning emperor in Chinese history

Meanings

1 Kangxi (1654–1722), reign title of the fourth Qing emperor Xuanye (reigned 1661–1722), longest-reigning emperor in Chinese history

Characters

康

Examples

康熙皇帝在位六十一年。

Kāngxī huángdì zàiwèi liùshíyī nián.

The Kangxi Emperor reigned for sixty-one years.

《康熙字典》收录了四万多个汉字。

《Kāngxī Zìdiǎn》 shōulù le sìwàn duō ge Hànzì.

The Kangxi Dictionary contains more than forty thousand Chinese characters.

Tips

history

Kangxi took the throne at seven, personally crushed the Three Feudatories revolt, incorporated Taiwan in 1683, and negotiated the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk with Russia — the first treaty China signed with a European power on roughly equal terms.

culture

The '康熙字典' (Kangxi Dictionary, 1716) became the standard Chinese dictionary for two centuries and still provides the radical-and-stroke system used to index traditional-character dictionaries today. Kangxi is also the name of Taiwan's long-running celebrity talk show 康熙来了.