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.)
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