Word Meaning 三皇五帝

さんこうごてい sankougotei

三皇五帝 is read as さんこうごてい (sankougotei) and means Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (mythological rulers of ancient China).

Meaning

English

  1. Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (mythological rulers of ancient China)

Reading

Kana

さんこうごてい

Romaji

sankougotei

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 25 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 3級 Rank 58615 Priority J

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

三皇后

さんこうごう

Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort

皇帝

おうだい

emperor

小皇帝

しょうこうてい

little emperor

五賢帝

ごけんてい

the Five Good Emperors (of the Roman Empire; Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius)

三々五々

さんさんごご

in groups of twos and threes

三公社五現業

さんこうしゃごげんぎょう

three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization of alcohol)

第三帝国

だいさんていこく

the Third Reich

教皇皇帝主義

きょうこうこうていしゅぎ

Papocaesarism

皇帝教皇主義

こうていきょうこうしゅぎ

Caesaropapism

皇帝ペンギン

こうていぺんぎん

emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)

皇帝の嗣

こうていのし

Emperor's heir

五十三次

ごじゅうさんつぎ

fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)