Reign names are usually left untranslated, but some scholars occasionally gloss them when they think these names have a special significance. Historian Pamela Crossley explains that Hong Taiji's first era name Tiancong 天聰 ("abkai sure" in Manchu) referred to a "capacity to transform" supported by Heaven, and that his second one Chongde 崇德 ("wesihun erdemungge") meant the achievement of this transformation. The practice of translating reign names is not new: Jesuits who resided at the Qing court in Beijing in the 18th century translated "Yongzheng"—or its Manchu version "Hūwaliyasun tob"—as "Concordia Recta".