era name

English

Noun

era name (plural era names)

1. The regnal year, reign period, or regnal title used when traditionally numbering years in an emperor's reign and naming certain Sinospheric rulers.

   Coordinate terms: art name, courtesy name, posthumous name, temple name

   The posthumous names of early Chinese rulers were often variations of a few words like "the martial one" (武), "the literary one" (文), "the filial one" (孝), but by the Tang they had become so long that people began using rulers' temple names or era names instead.

   • 2000, Endymion Wilkinson, “Geography”, in Chinese History: A New Manual‎, Rev. & enl. edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:

     Cities were not infrequently named after the era name in which they were founded (e.g., Shaoxing 紹興 in Zhejiang, after the Shaoxing era, 1131-62).

Translations

period

Chinese: Mandarin: 年號 / 年号 (zh) (niánhào) Finnish: aikakausinimi French: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 元号 (ja) (げんごう, gengō), 年号 (ja) (ねんごう, nengō) Korean: 연호(年號) (ko) (yeonho) Manchu: ᠠᠨᡳᠶᠠᡳ ᠴᠣᠯᠣ (aniyai colo) Mongolian: Cyrillic: оны цол (ony col) Mongolian script: ᠣᠨ ᠤ ᠴᠣᠯᠠ (on-u čola) Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: niên hiệu (vi)