戌

戌 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹一 (IHM), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿵戊一(GHTJK) or ⿹戈⿰丿一(V))

• 㖅, 䢕, 珬, 䎉, 銊(𫓰), 䬄, 咸, 威, 烕, 嵗, 歲, 歳

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 411, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11535
• Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1398, character 1
• Unihan data for U+620C

Historical forms of the character 戌
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) of an axe or halberd, almost identical to 戊 and similar to 戈.

Smith (2011) proposes that 戌 (OC *smid), graphically depicting an ax or halberd, is a nominal derivative of the verb 滅 (OC *med) "to annihilate" "by the multivalent prefix *s- (‘annihilate’ > ‘annihilator’ and thus ‘axe’)", and it was used to name the late, broad waxing crescent moon.

Association with the dog was possibly arbitrary, just as how 辰 was associated arbitarily with the dragon (see Ferlus, 2013).

戌

1. eleventh of twelve earthly branches (十二支)
2. Dog (狗) of Chinese zodiac

• (Chinese earthly branches) 地支 (dìzhī); 子 (zǐ), 丑 (chǒu), 寅 (yín), 卯 (mǎo), 辰 (chén), 巳 (sì), 午, 未 (wèi), 申 (shēn), 酉 (yǒu), 戌 (xū), 亥 (hài) ^{(Category: zh:Chinese earthly branches)}

戌

1. only used in 屈戌 (“metal fastening”)

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: しゅち (shuchi)
• Kan-on: しゅつ (shutsu)
• Kan’yō-on: じゅつ (jutsu)
• Kun: いぬ (inu, 戌)

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戌

Wikipedia ^ja

From 犬 (inu, “dog”).

• (Tokyo) いぬ (Odaka – )
• IPA^(key):

• Homophones: 犬, 狗

戌(いぬ) • (Inu) 

1. the Dog, the eleventh of the twelve Earthly Branches

   Hypernyms: 十二支, 地支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

戌(いぬ) • (inu) 

1. the hour of the dog; a historical dual-hour equivalent to 7PM - 9PM
   • c. 935,: Tosa Nikki (page 3)

     それの年の十二月の二十日あまり一日の日の戌の刻に、門出す。

     I departed on the twenty and one day of the twelfth month of that year at the hour of the dog.

From Middle Chinese 戌 (swit).

戌(じゅつ) • (Jutsu) 

1. the Dog, the eleventh of the twelve Earthly Branches

   Hypernyms: 十二支, 地支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

• Hasegawa, Masaharu with Yūichirō Imanishi, Hiroshi Itō, Hiroshi Yoshioka (1989) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 24: Tosa Nikki, Kagerō Nikki, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, Sarashina Nikki, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

戌 (eum 술 (sul))

1. 11th terrestrial branch

戌: Hán Nôm readings: tuất

1. chữ Hán form of Tuất (“eleventh of the twelve earthly branches”)

   Hypernyms: 地支, 十二支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥