📚 noun • entry_id 60778
posthumous name
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nombre póstumo
A respectful alias used in Chinese or sometimes more broadly East Asian contexts to refer to a dead person, particularly royalty.
The posthumous names of early Chinese rulers were often variations of a few words like "the martial one" (武), "the literary one" (文), and "the filial one" (孝), but by the Tang they…
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