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Naming taboo
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
避諱
Simplified Chinese
避讳
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
bìhuì
Bopomofo
ㄅㄧˋ ㄏㄨㄟˋ
Wade–Giles
pi4hui4
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
bei6 wai5
Southern Min
Tâi-lô
pī-huì
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet
kỵ húy
Hán-Nôm
忌諱
Korean name
Hangul
피휘
Hanja
避諱
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization
pihwi
McCune–Reischauer
p'ihwi
Japanese name
Kanji
避諱
Hiragana
ひき
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn
hiki
A naming taboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons, notably in China and within the Chinese cultural sphere. It was enforced by several laws throughout Imperial China, but its cultural and possibly religious origins predate the Qin dynasty. Not respecting the appropriate naming taboos was considered a sign of lacking education and respect, and brought shame both to the offender and the offended person.
A namingtaboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons, notably in China and within the Chinese cultural sphere...
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Word taboo, also called taboo language, language taboo or linguistic taboo is a kind of taboo that involves restricting the use of words or other parts...
exception). However, the name Jesus is considered taboo or sacrilegious in some parts of the Christian world, though this taboo does not extend to the cognate...
professional "art name" (hào; 號; 号) among their social peers. From at least the time of the Shang dynasty, the Chinese observed a number of namingtaboos regulating...
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cultural traditions dictate systems of namingtaboos, childhood names, courtesy names, art names, and posthumous names. Until the invention of the Korean...
during the Early Middle Ages, the names themselves exerted a profound influence on the development of European naming practices, and many continue to survive...
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their Chinese and Korean language names to the Western naming order. Western publications also preserve this Eastern naming order for Chinese, Korean and...
Republic and the later Empire, naming conventions went through multiple changes. (See Roman naming conventions.) The nomen, the name of the gens (tribe) inherited...
pen name, Arana ta Goiri'taŕ Sabin. This Basque naming custom was used in nationalist literature; in formal official documents, the Castilian naming order...
Arabic language names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from the Arabic-speaking and also non-Arab Muslim countries have...
The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules. Many...
Secretary General Kofi Annan. (See Naming customs of the Dagomba people.) Johan Degen, Traditional Ghanaian Names at the Wayback Machine (archived September...
Southern Bantu languages. Chinese namingtaboo prohibits speaking and writing syllables or characters that appear in the names of esteemed people, such as emperors...
The naming convention used in Eritrea and Ethiopia does not have family names and typically consists of an individual personal name and a separate patronymic...
Mongolia, naming customs are now similar to Mongolia but with some differences. Mongolian names traditionally have an important symbolic character—a name with...
origin names given to children. The full name have first name, middle name (usually of the father name or a Religious personality) and last name (surname/caste)...
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women, while the men were named Okonkwọ, Okorie, Okoeke, Okoafọ, Okoroafọ. In the Igbo naming convention a child is given a name at birth referencing an...
biblical narrative, as in the case of Nabal, a foolish man whose name means "fool". Names in the Bible can represent human hopes, divine revelations, or...
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