びょうごう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of びょうごう – see the following entry.

【廟号】 [noun] (historical) a temple name (posthumous names for Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese monarchs, used for worshiping them in their dedicated temples; often contains the characters 祖 (“ancestor”, founder of the dynasty) and 宗 (“lineage”))

(This term, びょうごう, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)