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era name en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The regnal year, reign period, or regnal title used when traditionally numbering years in an emperor's reign and naming certain Sinospheric rulers.
   • Cities were not infrequently named after the era name in which they were founded (e.g., Shaoxing 紹興 in Zhejiang, after the Shaoxing era, 1131-62). 2000, Endymion Wilkinson, “Geography”, in Chinese History: A New Manual, Rev. & enl. edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:
   • The posthumous names of early Chinese rulers were often variations of a few words like "the martial one" 武 (wǔ), "the literary one" 文, "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.

Forms

Translations (9)

ja 元号 (period) · mn оны цол (period) · mn ᠣᠨ ᠤ ᠴᠣᠯᠠ (period) · fi aikakausinimi (period) · vi niên hiệu (period) · ja 年号 (period) · cmn 年號 /年号 (period) · mnc ᠠᠨᡳᠶᠠᡳ ᠴᠣᠯᠣ (period) · ko 연호 (period)