DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

嘉慶

简嘉庆 · 繁嘉慶

Mandarin · pinyin Jiā qìng

Jiaqing Emperor (1760-1820), seventh Qing emperor, personal name 顒琰 Yóng yǎn, reigned 1796-1820

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

嘉: jiā · excellent; joyful; auspicious
慶: Look up this written character
庆: qìng · congratulate, celebrate

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–4 · Jia1 qing4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

嘉慶 · find source passages ↗ · 嘉庆 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 2 senses

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

name

(～帝) the Jiaqing Emperor (the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty)
(historical) the Jiaqing era (a Chinese era name; the era of that emperor's reign, from 1796 to 1820)

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack