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The Earthly Branches (also called the Terrestrial Branches or the 12-cycle [1]) are a system of twelve ordered symbols used throughout East Asia.They are indigenous to China, and are themselves Chinese characters, corresponding to words with no concrete meaning other than the associated branch's ordinal position in the list.
Carving of a bovine animal ("ox"), at Mount Hôrai-ji Buddhist Temple, Aichi Prefecture, Japan: a stone monument showing the Earthly Branch symbol chǒu . The Ox is the second of the 12-year periodic sequence (cycle) of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar, and
The Rooster (simplified Chinese: 鸡; traditional Chinese: 雞/鷄) is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Rooster is represented by the Earthly Branch symbol 酉. In the Tibetan zodiac and the Gurung zodiac, the bird is in place of the Rooster. [1] [2]
The system of the twelve-year cycle of animal signs was built from observations of the orbit of Jupiter (the Year Star; simplified Chinese: 岁星; traditional Chinese: 歳星; pinyin: Suìxīng). Following the orbit of Jupiter around the Sun, Chinese astronomers divided the celestial circle into 12 sections, and rounded it to 12 years (from 11 ...
In Japan, the rat is known as nezumi, and is the first in a twelve-year zodiacal cycle of animals. [8] The Year of the Rat and the years of the subsequent other zodiacal animals is celebrated during Chinese New Year, in many parts of the world, with the animal appropriate to each new year serving as an artistic motif for decorations. The Rat ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 May 2024. Sign of Chinese zodiac Dog "Dog" in regular Chinese characters Chinese 狗 Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin gǒu Wade–Giles kou 3 IPA [kòʊ] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization gáu Jyutping gau2 IPA [kɐw˧˥] Southern Min Hokkien POJ káu Old Chinese Baxter–Sagart (2014 ...
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狸, the Japanese name for the animal, Nyctereutes procyonoides, known as a Japanese raccoon dog in English tsunami 津波, literally "harbor wave"; Large wave caused by earthquakes or other underwater disturbances. (English IPA ː [(t)suːnɑːmiː]) tsuresari