諡
shì

posthumous name

諡 shì
posthumous name
(bound form) a name given to ancient kings, nobles, or high officials after their death to summarize their life's achievements and character
谥 諡 shì
variant 謚
posthumous title
(bound form) a name or title conferred on kings, nobles, or high officials after their death to honor or evaluate their life's work
to confer a posthumous name
(literary) to grant or evaluate a posthumous title based on the person's deeds while alive; to give a name to someone after they have died based on their deeds in life.

Cross-References

See

Frequency
Character
Written text
6,687th most common 0.109 per million
Word
Written text
0.001 per million

Details
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+8AE1

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)