Qing emperor who reigned for 61 years from the age of seven, the longest reign in Chinese history. He put down the Revolt of the Three Feudatories, brought Taiwan under Qing rule in 1683 and ordered the 康熙字典 dictionary.
His 1689 尼布楚条约 with Russia, the Treaty of Nerchinsk, was China's first formal treaty with a Western power. Its binding text was in Latin, drafted through two Jesuit interpreters, and no official Chinese version existed for about two centuries.
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The 康熙字典 (1716) filed its 47,000-odd characters under 214 radicals, an order dictionaries and Unicode still follow. Taiwan's talk show 康熙来了 only borrowed the name: 康 and 熙 come from its hosts 蔡康永 and 徐熙娣.
