Chinese symbol for “posthumous”
遗墨
yí mò
Traditional: 遺墨
posthumous (painting, calligraphy, prose etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for posthumous is 遗墨 (yí mò), defined as: posthumous (painting, calligraphy, prose etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “posthumous”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 遗墨.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 遗憾 (遺憾) | yí hàn | regret; to regret |
| 遗址 (遺址) | yí zhǐ | ruins; historic relics |
| 遗产 (遺產) | yí chǎn | heritage; legacy |
| 遗传 (遺傳) | yí chuán | heredity; to inherit (a trait) |
| 遗体 (遺體) | yí tǐ | remains (of a dead person) |
| 遗忘 (遺忘) | yí wàng | to forget; to cease to think about (sb or sth) anymore |
| 墨水 | mò shuǐ | ink; measure word: 瓶 (píng) |
| 墨镜 (墨鏡) | mò jìng | sunglasses; measure word: 副 (fù) |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.