Kangxi as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kangxi

What is the meaning of the name Kangxi ?

The baby name Kangxi is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Kāngxī (KANG-shee); pinyin: Kāngxī; IPA: /kɑŋɕi/.

Kangxi is Chinese in Origin.

Kangxi is a Sino-Mandarin name formed from the characters Kang 康 (kāng, “healthy, peaceful, well-off”) and Xi 熙 (xī, “bright, flourishing, prosperous”). Together they convey wishes for enduring health and radiant prosperity. The compound is phonetically rendered as kang-shee in English.

Best known as the reign title of the Qing ruler Xuanye, the Kangxi Emperor (era 1662-1722), it evokes a long, stable, and scholarly period memorialized by the Kangxi Dictionary and its radical system. As a modern given name, Kangxi is uncommon - many families instead use one of the characters, especially 熙, in two-syllable names - but it can be adopted as a bold, virtue-laden choice. Romanization and cross-lingual forms include Kangxi (Pinyin), K'ang-hsi (Wade-Giles), Hong Hei (Cantonese; Jyutping hong1 hei1), Ganghui (Korean), Koki (Japanese), and Khang Hi (Sino-Vietnamese). Nicknames may shorten to Kang or Xi. Gender usage is broadly unisex, though the historic association skews masculine.

⚙ Kangxi is extremely rare. Across 2 countries, we found just 2 recorded uses of it.