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甲子

jiǎ zǐ
Uncommon

Definitions

  1. 1. first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tiān gān] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[dì zhī])
  2. 2. the sixty-year cycle

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Words Containing 甲子

一甲子
yī jiǎ zǐ

sixty years

Child Words of 甲子

子
zǐ

son

甲
jiǎ

first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān]