Example sentences for: manchu

How can you use “manchu” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Manchu rulers of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) were wise enough to adopt Chinese ways.

  • The Qing rulers never forgot their nomadic Manchu roots, and Emperor Kangxi developed this remote valley in the countryside as a summer court and hunting ground in 1703.

  • A 99-year lease was imposed on the Manchu government.

  • Retaliation came a year later in the first of the Opium Wars, which culminated in a series of “unequal treaties” forced on an increasingly weak Manchu regime.

  • But for all their Confucian outlook and traditionalism, the Manchu imposed one singular feature of their own culture: the wearing of pigtails.


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