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Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of わう – see the following entries.
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- a king, especially one who is not East Asian or was East Asian in pre-imperial times; in China and Vietnam, generally a king before Qin Shi Huangdi who invented the title 皇帝 (kōtei, “huangdi; emperor”); in Korea, one of the many kings before the Korean Empire which was modeled after Japan's; in Japan, one of the rulers before Emperor Jinmu
- an East Asian queen regnant
- a nobility title for a Chinese or Vietnamese prince, bestowed on one of the 皇帝 (kōtei, “huangdi; emperor”)'s adult sons, brothers, or nephews, especially as a coming-of-age title, generally comes with an estate ("principality"); compare 皇子 (ōji, “imperial princes”, especially pre-adult ones) and 公 (kō, “dukes”, an alternative used by certain dynasties)
- a Japanese prince's son (such princes include 親王 (shinnō) or 王 (ō) themselves)
- king
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(This term, わう (wau), is a historical kana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as わう, see Category:Japanese kanji read as わう.)
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