Unicode: U+8C25

Pinyin: shì

Definition

* 古代帝王或大官死后评给的称号。 ~号。~法。~宝(帝王陵墓中,刻有帝后谥号的印玺)。 * 叫作,称为:"身死无名,~为至愚"

to confer posthumous titles

Structure

谥 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
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Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
81_F24F81_F24D81_F24E

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC