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A variant posthumous name used in China and occasionally other East Asian cultures for ritual worship at a dynasty's ancestral temple.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Examples
- The posthumous names of early Chinese rulers were often variations of a few words like "the martial one" 武 (wǔ), "the literary one" 文, and "the filial one" 孝 (xiào), but by the Tang they had become so long that people began using rulers' temple names or era names instead.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: temple title
Antonyms: none provided
Calque of Chinese 廟號 /庙号 (miàohào). The temple (廟 /庙 (miào)) refers to the grand temples (太廟 /太庙 (tàimiào)) built by each dynasty for ancestor worship where each deceased monarch's temple name was recorded on their ancestral tablet in the grand temple.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
廟號 /庙号
(miàohào)
— variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples
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Finnish:
temppelinimi
— variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples
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French:
nom de temple
— variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples
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Japanese:
廟号
(byōgō)
— variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples
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Korean:
묘호
(myoho)
— variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples
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Russian:
хра́мовое и́мя
(xrámovoje ímja)
— variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples
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Spanish:
nombre de templo
— variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples
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Swedish:
tempelnamn
— variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples
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Vietnamese:
miếu hiệu
— variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples
