Meaning of posthumous name | Babel Free

Definitions

A respectful alias used in Chinese or sometimes more broadly East Asian contexts to refer to a dead person, particularly royalty.

historical

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“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.”

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