posthumous name

短语

谥号

词形变化

posthumous names 复数 posthumous names

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    谥号

    谥

    历史

    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.