Kub ‧ lai Khan /ˌkuːblə ˈkɑːn, -blaɪ-/ BrE AmE
(1216–94) a Mongol ↑ emperor of China from 1259 until his death, whose grandfather was Genghis ↑ khan . He moved the capital of China to Peking. There is a famous English poem about him called Kubla Khan , by Samuel Taylor ↑ Coleridge .