Meaning of Kangxi | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Chinese emperor (1654-1722) from the Qing Dynasty period.
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.

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Examples

“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.”

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

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

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