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秦始皇
秦始皇
Chinese
| (surname); name of a dynasty | Qin Shi Huang (259–210 | ||
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simp. and trad. (秦始皇) |
秦 | 始皇 | |
Proper noun
秦始皇
- (historical) Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China
Usage notes
Although the forms First Emperor, Shi Huangdi, and Shih Huang-ti remain more common in non-scholarly English, 秦始皇 is much more common in modern Chinese, with the non-truncated forms only appearing in scholarly or historical works.
The personal names 嬴政 and the rare hypercorrections 趙政／赵政 are anachronisms: Chinese of the period generally employed their 姓 (ancestral names), 氏 (clan names), and 名 (given names) separately and not in the compound form of modern Chinese.