Word information
Simplified甲子
Traditional甲子
Pinyinjiǎ zǐ
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Chinese word dictionary
甲子
jiǎ zǐ · 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
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