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]); the sixty-year cycle
Characters in this word
2甲
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first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1], (used for an unspecified person or thing), first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc), letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc, armor plating, shell or carapace, (of the fingers or toes) nail, bladed leather or metal armor (old), ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old), civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old), ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
- Pinyin
- jiǎ
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 24738 of 2500
子
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son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Pinyin
- zǐ
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 2170 of 2500