jiǎ zǐ

甲子 (jiǎ zǐ) is a Chinese word meaning “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”.

Meanings

  1. 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])
  2. 2the sixty-year cycle

Characters in 甲子

甲jiǎ · first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]子zǐ · son

Related words

孩子child儿子son房子house妻子wife and children妻子wife案子long table; counter样子appearance小子(literary) youngster小子(coll.) boy子son子noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"日子day

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