K'ang Hsi

Pinyin, Kang Xi

[kahng shee]

noun

1. Shêng-tsu, 1654?–1722, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1662–1722.

Example Sentences

The large plate is a fine piece of K'ang Hsi decorated porcelain.

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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.

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A most wonderful literary feat was achieved under the direction of the before-mentioned Emperor K'ang Hsi, when a general Concordance to the phraseology of all literature was compiled and published for general use.

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K'ang Hsi, Emperor, see that title.

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K'ang Hsi, Emperor— Dictionary and phrase-concordance ordered, 64, 65.

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