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 invaders called their new dynasty the Qing (Ch’ing).

  • In 1625 Shenyang (better known abroad as “Mukden”) became the Manchu capital.

  • At the turn of the 20th century, the Manchu Dynasty granted foreign concessions in Jinan, prompting an influx of Europeans.

  • 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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