First Emperor
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| King of Qin | |||||
| Reign | 7 May 247 – 220 BC | ||||
| Predecessor | King Zhuangxiang | ||||
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| Reign | 220 BC – 10 September 210 BC | ||||
| Successor | Qin Er Shi | ||||
| Born | 18 February 259 BC | ||||
| Died | 10 September 210 BC (aged 49) | ||||
| Issue | Crown Prince Fusu Qin Er Shi Prince Gao Prince Jianglü |
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| House | Qin dynasty | ||||
| Father | King Zhuangxiang | ||||
| Mother | Queen Dowager Zhao | ||||
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| 姓 Ancestral name: Ying () 氏 Clan name: Zhao () 名 Given name: Zheng () |
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"Qin Shi Huang" in seal script (top) and regular (bottom) Chinese characters
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| Literal meaning | "First Emperor of the Qin" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Literal meaning | "First Emperor" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Qín shǐ huáng |
| Wade–Giles | Ch‘in2 shih3 huang2 |
| IPA | [tɕʰǐn ʂɨ̀ xwǎŋ] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Chèuhn Chí-wòhng |
| Jyutping | Ceon4 Ci2-wong4 |
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| Hokkien POJ | Tsîn Sí-hông |
| Middle Chinese | |
| Middle Chinese | Dzin SiB-Hwang |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shǐ Huángdì |
| Wade–Giles | Shih3 Huang2-ti4 |
| Old Chinese | |
| Baxter-Sagart | *l̻əʔ [ɢ]ʷˤaŋ tˤek-s |
Qin Shi Huang 
(Chinese: 秦始皇; literally: "First Emperor of Qin"; 18 February 259 BC – 10 September 210 BC) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and was the first emperor of a unified China. He was born Ying Zheng (嬴政) or Zhao Zheng (趙政), a prince of the state of Qin. He became the King Zheng of Qin (秦王政) when he was thirteen, then China's first emperor when he was 38 after the Qin had conquered all of the other Warring States and unified all of China in 221 BC. Rather than maintain the title of "king" borne by the previous Shang and Zhou rulers, he ruled as the First Emperor (始皇帝) of the Qin dynasty from 220 to 210 BC. His self-invented title "emperor" (皇帝, 
huángdì), as indicated by his use of the word "First", would continue to be borne by Chinese rulers for the next two millennia.
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