谥
shì

to confer posthumous titles

谥 (諡) shì
posthumously title verb
to confer a posthumous name or title upon someone

皇帝谥其为“武穆”。

huáng​dì shì qí wéi“ Wǔ Mù”.

The emperor posthumously titled him 'Wumu.'

posthumous name verb
a name or title given to a ruler or person of status after their death to summarize their life

在古代，由于一个人的谥是对他生平的高度总结，人们非常看重它。

zài gǔ​dài, yóu​yú yī gè rén de shì shì duì tā shēng​píng de gāo​dù zǒng​jié, rén​men fēi​cháng kàn​zhòng tā.

In ancient times, people attached great importance to a person's posthumous title as it was a high-level summary of their life.

Frequency
Character
Written text
4,039th most common 2.88 per million
Movie subtitles
5,271st most common 0.040 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.29 per million

Details
Traditional
謚
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+8C25

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)