Illustration: Inside a Japanese museum's ancient Rome gallery, a child studies a life-size reconstructed imperial audience scene. A Roman emperor wearing a laurel wreath sits elevated on a ceremonial chair, with an eagle standard behind him.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

皇こう帝てい

koutei

emperor

Example sentences

  1. 皇帝こうていネロは極きわめて邪悪じゃあくな暴君ぼうくんだった。

    Emperor Nero was an extremely evil tyrant.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 皇帝こうていの位くらいは神かみから授さずかったものだと信しんじられていた。

    It was believed that the emperor’s position was bestowed by the gods.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 皇帝こうていは大変残念たいへんざんねんに思おもい、特別とくべつな扱あつかいで埋葬まいそうすることにした。

    The Emperor felt very sorry for his death and decided to bury him with special treatment.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 皇帝

  • 皇emperorOnコウ・オウ
  • 帝sovereign; the emperorOnテイKunみかど

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