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by numpad0 496 days ago
It's astonishing how little information that phonetic representations of Chinese allow to be retained.

Qin Shi Huang/Shih Huang Ti both means [Qin]Founding Emperor[-King]. In layperson's approximation, He's so ancient that his canonical name and title is debatable, and he's almost always referred to as "the first emperor" or variants thereof.