戒名

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
戒 名
かい
Grade: S 		みょう
Grade: 1
goon

Pronunciation

Noun

戒(かい)名(みょう) • (kaimyō) 

  1. (Buddhism) posthumous Buddhist name, a name given to a dead person by a monk at the Buddhist funeral
  2. (Buddhism) Buddhist name, a name given to those who became a Buddhist disciple

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
戒名

Noun

戒名 • (gyemyeong) (hangeul 계명)

  1. hanja form? of 계명
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