けみょう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of けみょう – see the following entry at 仮名.
けみょう【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 a hiragana spelling of 仮名.)

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