Dictionary

temple name en · NOUN

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (historical) A variant posthumous name used in China and occasionally other East Asian cultures for ritual worship at a dynasty's ancestral temple.
   • 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.

Forms

Synonyms

temple title

Translations (9)

fi temppelinimi (variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples) · fr nom de temple (variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples) · ko 묘호 (variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples) · ja 廟号 (variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples) · ru хра́мовое и́мя (variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples) · vi miếu hiệu (variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples) · sv tempelnamn (variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples) · cmn 廟號 /庙号 (variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples) · es nombre de templo (variant posthumous name used in East Asian imperial temples)