Chinese era names, also known as reign mottos, were titles used by various Chinese dynasties and regimes in Imperial China for the purpose of year identification...

the Chinese era names used by the various dynasties and regimes in the history of China, sorted by monarch. The English renditions of the era names in...

the use of era names was originally derived from Chinese imperial practice, although the Japanese system is independent of the Chinese, Korean, and...

Korean regimes officially adopted the era names of Chinese dynasties. Era names originated in 140 BCE in China, during the reign of the Emperor Wu of...

Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters...

own era names. During periods of direct Chinese rule, Chinese era names would gain official use in Vietnam, as was the case for other parts of China. The...

state', 'Middle kingdom' in Standard Chinese, a form based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. The English name "China" was borrowed from Portuguese during...

the Republic of China (ROC) in Nanjing, as the first year. The ROC calendar follows the tradition of using the sovereign's era name and year of reign...

used the Ganzhi calendar without era names. Overseas Chinese used Longfei (龍飛) or Tianyun (天運). Chinese era names (年號, niánhào) were used since 140 BC...

(simplified Chinese: 崇祯帝; traditional Chinese: 崇禎帝; pinyin: Chóngzhēn Dì; 6 February 1611 – 25 April 1644), personal name Zhu Youjian (Chinese: 朱由檢; pinyin:...

Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the...

of Chinese monarchs List of monarchs of Korea List of monarchs of Vietnam Regnal name Chinese era name List of Chinese era names Japanese era name Korean...

The Chinese sovereign was the ruler of a particular monarchical regime in the historical periods of ancient China and imperial China. Sovereigns ruling...

Chinese Indonesians have adopted names that better match the local language. During the Dutch colonial era, the Dutch administration recorded Chinese...

authority. Chinese era name Japanese era name Korean era name Vietnamese era name Temple name Posthumous name Rama (Kings of Thailand) Religious name As the...

Americans (per name) was just over 150,000. The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" (simplified Chinese: 张三李四; traditional Chinese: 張三李四; pinyin:...

language, both in majority-Sinophone countries and among the Chinese diaspora. Chinese given names are almost always made up of one or - usually - two characters...

of China's first president, Sun Yat-sen, chose Zhonghua Minguo (Chinese: 中華民國; lit. 'Chinese people's state') as the country's official Chinese name. The...

The Warlord Era was a period in the history of the Republic of China when control of the country was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang...

China traditionally reckoned by the regnal year of its emperors, see Chinese era name. Most Chinese do not assign numbers to the years of the Chinese...

"Reiwa" marks the first Japanese era name with characters that were taken from Japanese literature instead of classic Chinese literature. Robert Campbell,...

Jianwen (Chinese: 建文; pinyin: Jiànwén; Wade–Giles: Chien-wen; lit. 'establishing civility'; 6 February 1399 – 29 July 1402) was the era name (nianhao)...

translated term was Chinese: 西元 (xī yuán, "Western Era"), which is still used in Taiwan in formal documents. In 1949, the People's Republic of China adopted 公元...

posthumous names. Some early Japanese monarchs also had Japanese-style posthumous names (和風諡号). Shihao (traditional Chinese: 諡號; simplified Chinese: 谥号; pinyin:...

influence on Chinese civilization, the Chinese of the post-Qin era identified themselves as the "people of Han" (漢人; 汉人; Hànrén), a name that has been...

Revolution. The Great Chinese Famine, one of the worst famines in human history, occurred during this era. On September 29, 1949, the Chinese People's Political...

Supernova Era is a science fiction novel written by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. This novel portrays a luminous stellar explosion releasing powerful...

Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, commonly abbreviated outside China as Xi Jinping Thought, is an ideological...

Hongzhi (Chinese: 弘治; pinyin: Hóngzhì; Wade–Giles: Hung-chih; lit. 'great governance'; 14 January 1488 – 23 January 1506) was the era name (nianhao) of...

countries utilized slightly different systems, notably: Chinese eras Japanese era Korean eras Vietnamese eras A similar practice survived in the United Kingdom...