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| tyle="background:#ccf; border-bottom:2px solid" align=center colspan=2|Han Wudi (漢武帝) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Family name: | style="border-top:1px solid"|Liu (劉) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Given name: | style="border-top:1px solid"|Zhi¹ (彘), later Che² (徹) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Courtesy name (字): | style="border-top:1px solid"|Tong3 (通) |
| lign=right style="border-top:3px solid"|Dates of reign: | style="border-top:3px solid"|Mar. 9, 141 BC–Mar. 29, 87 BC |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Temple name: | style="border-top:1px solid"|Shizong(世宗) |
lign=center style="border-top:1px solid"|Posthumous name:
(short) | style="border-top:1px solid"|Emperor Wu (武帝) |
lign=center style="border-top:1px solid"|Posthumous name:
(full) | style="border-top:1px solid"|Emperor Xiao Wu (孝武皇帝) |
olspan=2 align=center style="border-top:3px solid"|General note: Dates given here are in the proleptic Julian calendar.
They are not in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. |
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olspan=2 align=center |1. Allegedly, Emperor Jing, father of Emperor Wu, had a dream
in which the late Emperor Gaozu suggested this name.
Zhi means "pig", "hog". |
olspan=2 align=center |2. Had his name changed into the more suitable Che when he was
officially made crown prince in April 150 BC. |
olspan=2 align=center |3. This courtesy name is reported by Xun Yue (荀悅) (148-209),
the author of Records of the Han Dynasty (漢紀), but other sources
do not mention a courtesy name. |