temple name

English

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.

Noun

temple name (plural temple names)

1. A posthumous title of a Chinese, Korean or Vietnamese emperor.

   Synonym: temple title

Translations

posthumous title of a Chinese, Korean or Vietnamese emperor

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廟號 / 庙号 (zh) (miàohào)

• Finnish: temppelinimi
• French: nom de temple m
• Japanese: 廟号 (びょうごう, byōgō)
• Korean: 묘호(廟號) (ko) (myoho)
• Russian: хра́мовое и́мя n (xrámovoje ímja)
• Spanish: nombre de templo m
• Swedish: tempelnamn n
• Vietnamese: miếu hiệu (vi)

Further reading

• temple name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• empalement