五帝 wǔ dì

Five Emperors from legendary times

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. Five Emperors from legendary times
  2. 2. usually taken to be the Yellow Emperor 黄帝huáng dì and four of his sons Zhuan Xu 颛顼zhuān xū, Di Ku 帝喾dì kù, Tang Yao 唐尧táng yáo, Yu Shun 虞舜yú shùn
  3. 3. possibly tribal leaders before the historiographers got working on them

Characters

Character Meaning
五 wǔ HSK 1
five; 5
帝 dì HSK 6
emperor