created sense approved 谥法/諡法 · shìfǎ · posthumous titling system — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
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shìfǎ
posthumous titling system
(literary) The traditional system of conferring posthumous titles based on a person's life and achievements; established in the Zhou Dynasty and continued until the late Qing Dynasty.
谥 (literal) → 谥/諡 · shì · posthumous title 法 (literal) → 法 · fǎ · method
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created sense approved 谥法/諡法 · shìfǎ · Shifa — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
谥法 / 諡法
shìfǎ
Shifa
The title of a book compiled by Su Xun of the Song Dynasty, which standardized the historical rules for posthumous titling.
谥 (literal) → 谥/諡 · shì · posthumous title 法 (literal) → 法 · fǎ · method
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition