皇こう太たい后ごう

also: こうたいこう

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 100,000

Meanings

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noun

Title for the mother of the reigning emperor, or the widow of a previous emperor. Used in historical and modern imperial contexts.

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皇こう

太たい

后ごう

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The Empress Dowager of the Meiji era was a symbolic figure of the imperial family.

太たい皇こう太たい后ごう
Grand Empress Dowager; the grandmother of the reigning emperor, a higher-ranking title than 皇太后.
皇こう后ごう
Empress consort; the wife of the reigning emperor, not the mother or widow.

From Chinese 皇太后 (huángtàihòu). The reading こうたいごう is the standard Sino-Japanese on'yomi; こうたいこう is an older, now obsolete reading.