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Chinese
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dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname
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grand; intense; prosperous grand; intense; prosperous; start (a fire); sound of drums
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simp. and trad. (乾隆)
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乾
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隆
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Etymology
See also Manchu ᠠᠪᡴᠠᡳ
ᠸᡝᡥᡳᠶᡝᡥᡝ (abkai wehiyehe).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
乾隆 (historical)
- (~帝) the Qianlong Emperor (the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty)
- the Qianlong era (a Chinese era name; the era of that emperor's reign, from 1736 to 1795)
Coordinate terms
- (era names of Qing) 天命 (Later Jin), 天聰 / 天聪 (Tiāncōng) (Later Jin), 崇德 (Chóngdé), 順治 / 顺治 (Shùnzhì), 康熙 (Kāngxī), 雍正 (Yōngzhèng), 乾隆 (Qiánlóng), 嘉慶 / 嘉庆 (Jiāqìng), 道光 (Dàoguāng), 咸豐 (Xiánfēng), 祺祥 (qíxiáng) (cancelled), →同治 (Tóngzhì), 光緒 / 光绪 (Guāngxù), 宣統 / 宣统 (Xuāntǒng) (Category: zh:Chinese era names)