Kangxi

See also: Kāngxī

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 康熙 (Kāngxī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑŋˈʃiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Proper noun

Kangxi

1. A Chinese emperor (1654-1722) from the Qing Dynasty period.
   • [2022 November 2, Shelley Shan, “NPP calls on museum to account for damaged items”, in Taipei Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 02, 2022, Taiwan News, page 2‎^[2]:

     Wu on Friday said the museum has completed its investigations into the damage to the stem bowl as well as a yellow porcelain bowl made during the Kangsi era of the Qing Dynasty, which were found to have been broken when museum staff opened their boxes.]

2. The Kangxi Dictionary, a dictionary and cross reference of Chinese characters, first published in 1716 at the behest of the Kangxi emperor, and used to the present day.
   • 1992, O. Harrassowitz, Central Asiatic Journal‎^[3], volume 36, page 189:

     According to Kangxi, this word has two kinds of pronunciation.

   • 2003, Lexicography: Reference works across time, space and languages, →ISBN:

     [He wrote] Textual Criticism of Kangxi Zidian, 1827[,] in which he identified more than 2500 erroneous citations in Kangxi.

Derived terms

• Kangxi radical

Translations

emperor

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 康熙 (hong¹ hei¹)

  Mandarin: 康熙 (zh) (Kāngxī)

• Japanese: 康熙 (Kōki)
• Korean: 강희 (康熙) (ganghui)
• Vietnamese: Khang Hi (康熙)

Kangxi Dictionary

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 康熙字典 (hong¹ hei¹ zi⁶ din²)

  Mandarin: 康熙字典 (zh) (Kāngxī Zìdiǎn)

• Japanese: 康熙字典 (Kōki Jiten)
• Korean: 강희자전(康熙字典) (ganghuijajeon)
• Vietnamese: Khang Hi tự điển (康熙字典)