けみょう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of けみょう – see the following entry.

【仮名】 [noun] a pseudonym, an alias, sobriquet, pen name [noun] in feudal Japan, a public name given to boys upon coming of age, after which their birth names would be kept private [noun] a provisional name given to someone when the real name is unknown: compare English Jane Doe, John Doe [noun] (Buddhism) the conceptualisation and provisional naming of things that are not real; something so named

(This term, けみょう, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)