秦始皇

Usage notes

 * Although the forms First Emperor, Shi Huangdi, and Shih Huang-ti remain more common in non-scholarly English, 秦始皇 is much more common in modern Chinese, with the non-truncated forms only appearing in scholarly or historical works.


 * The personal names 嬴政 (attested since the Three Kingdoms period) and the rare hypercorrections (attested since the middle Western Han) are anachronisms: Chinese of the period generally employed their, , and  separately and not in the compound form of modern Chinese.


 * In historical context, referred to as before his unification of China.

Noun

 * 1)  expert in writing love letters