甲子
Dictionary entry
first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1])
What does 甲子 mean?
甲子 (jiǎ zǐ) has the following dictionary meaning.
1first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1])
2the sixty-year cycle
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