乾隆

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
simp. and trad. (乾隆)		乾	隆

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Qiánlóng

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄌㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kin⁴ lung⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): Khiân-liông / Kiân-liông

  (Teochew, Peng'im): kiêng⁵ long⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Qiánlóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄌㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Ciánlóng
    • Wade–Giles: Chʻien²-lung²
    • Yale: Chyán-lúng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Chyanlong
    • Palladius: Цяньлун (Cjanʹlun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ lʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kin⁴ lung⁴
    • Yale: kìhn lùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kin⁴ lung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kin⁴ lung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰiːn²¹ lʊŋ²¹/
• 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/

Proper noun

乾隆 (historical)

1. (～帝) the Qianlong Emperor (the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty)
2. the Qianlong era (a Chinese era name; the era of that emperor's reign, from 1736 to 1795)

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