乾隆
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Chinese
dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname |
grand; intense; prosperous grand; intense; prosperous; start (a fire); sound of drums | ||
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| simp. and trad. (乾隆) |
乾 | 隆 | |
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): kin4 lung4 / kin4 lung4-2
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien, POJ): Khiân-liông / Kiân-liông
- (Teochew, Peng'im): kiêng5 long5
- Wu (Northern, Wugniu): 6ji-lon6 / 2jie-lon2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄌㄨㄥˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Ciánlóng
- Wade–Giles: Chʻien2-lung2
- Yale: Chyán-lúng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Chyanlong
- Palladius: Цяньлун (Cjanʹlun)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ lʊŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: kin4 lung4 / kin4 lung4-2
- Yale: kìhn lùhng / kìhn lúng
- Cantonese Pinyin: kin4 lung4 / kin4 lung4-2
- Guangdong Romanization: kin4 lung4 / kin4 lung4-2
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰiːn²¹ lʊŋ²¹/, /kʰiːn²¹ lʊŋ²¹⁻³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khiân-liông
- Tâi-lô: Khiân-liông
- Phofsit Daibuun: qienlioong
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiɛn¹³⁻²² liɔŋ¹³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiɛn²³⁻³³ liɔŋ²³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /kʰiɛn²⁴⁻²² liɔŋ²⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰiɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ liɔŋ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kiân-liông
- Tâi-lô: Kiân-liông
- Phofsit Daibuun: kienlioong
- IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /kiɛn²⁴⁻²² liɔŋ²⁴/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: kiêng5 long5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khiêng lông
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰieŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ loŋ⁵⁵/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Wu
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)