天干

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Chinese

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Etymology 1

day; sky; heaven
 
to concern; to interfere; shield
to concern; to interfere; shield; stem
simp. and trad.
(天干) 		天 干

Pronunciation

Noun

天干

  1. heavenly stem: one of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent
    1. (historical or astrology) A day of the traditional ten-day week.
    2. (mythology) One of the ten suns thought to appear in succession on its appointed day of the traditional week
    3. (historical religion) The ancestor venerated with a ritual on the appointed day of the traditional week.
    4. (formal) An ordinal, used in similar contexts to Roman numerals in English numbering and outlining.
  2. The set of ten heavenly stems as a whole.

Synonyms

Hyponyms

  • 甲 (jiǎ, “first”)
  • 乙 (yǐ, “second”)
  • 丙 (bǐng, “third”)
  • 丁 (dīng, “fourth”)
  • 戊 (wù, “fifth”)
  • 己 (jǐ, “sixth”)
  • 庚 (gēng, “seventh”)
  • 辛 (xīn, “eighth”)
  • 壬 (rén, “ninth”)
  • 癸 (guǐ, “tenth”)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Zhuang: diengan

See also

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 天干 – see 天乾 (“drought”).
(This term is the simplified form of 天乾).
Notes:

Korean

Hanja in this term
天干

Noun

天干 • (cheon'gan) (hangeul 천간)

  1. Hanja form? of 천간 (“the ten heavenly stems”).
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