Ch'ien Lung

American  

[chyen loong] / ˈtʃyɛn ˈlʊŋ /

(Pinyin) Kien Lung

noun

1. Kao Tsung, 1711–99, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1736–96.

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Ch'ien-lung British  

/ tʃɪˈænˈlɒŋ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Qian Long

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Example Sentences

Sixty years have passed since Gustaf made his first purchase: a hexagonal famille rose dish of the Ch'ien Lung period.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then came the present dynasty of Manchu Tatars, of whom the same tale must be told, in spite of two highly-cultured emperors, K‘ang Hsi and Ch‘ien Lung, both of them poets and one of them author of a collection containing no fewer than 33,950 pieces, most of which, it must be said, are but four-line stanzas, of no literary value whatever.

From Project Gutenberg

Ch'ien Lung, Emperor, catalogue enterprise, 69.

From Project Gutenberg

These are the dynastic histories of China, in a uniform edition published in the year 1747, under the auspices of the famous Emperor Ch'ien Lung, who himself contributed a Preface.

From Project Gutenberg

In the year 1772 the enlightened Emperor Ch'ien Lung, who then sat upon the throne, gave orders that a descriptive Catalogue should be prepared of the books in the Imperial Library.

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