甲子 jiǎzǐ
jiǎzǐ
noun
first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干 and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支 ); the sixty-year cycle
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '甲子'; Mathews 1931 '甲子', p. 82)
Contained in
- 平头甲子(平頭甲子) sixty years old
- 一甲子 sixty years
- 六十甲子 a cylcle of sixty years ; sixty years old
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五十五 志第八 天文八 Volume 55 Treatises 8: Astronomy 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 32
- 卷五十四 志第七 天文七 Volume 54 Treatises 7: Astronomy 7 History of Song 宋史 — count: 26
- 卷五十三 志第六 天文六 Volume 53 Treatises 6: Astronomy 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 25
- 卷二十一 律曆志 Volume 21: Treatise on Rhythm and the Calendar Book of Han 漢書 — count: 23
- 卷17 志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 21
- 卷五十六 志第九 天文九 Volume 56 Treatises 9: Astronomy 9 History of Song 宋史 — count: 20
- 卷二十六 志第二 天文二 Volume 26 Treatises 2: Astronomy 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 20
- 卷三十 本紀第三十 高宗七 Volume 30 Annals 30: Gaozong 7 History of Song 宋史 — count: 17
- 卷五 本紀第五 睿宗 玄宗 Volume 5 Annals 5: Ruizong, Xuanzong New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 17
- 卷三十五 本紀第三十五 孝宗三 Volume 35 Annals 35: Xiaozong 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 16
Collocations
- 甲子朔 (甲子朔) 正月甲子朔 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 47
- 十一月甲子 (十一月甲子) 十一月甲子朔旦冬至 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孝武本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowu Emperor — count: 37
- 正月甲子 (正月甲子) 正月甲子朔 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 34
- 二月甲子 (二月甲子) 王二月甲子 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 27
- 五月甲子 (五月甲子) 五月甲子 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 23
- 三月甲子 (三月甲子) 三月甲子 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《漢興以來將相名臣年表》 Yearly Table of Statesmen, Generals and Officials since the Han Dynasty's Founding — count: 23
- 六月甲子 (六月甲子) 六月甲子 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 21
- 八月甲子 (八月甲子) 六年八月甲子 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu — count: 17
- 十二月甲子 (十二月甲子) 以建平元年十二月甲子夜生光武於縣舍 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷一下 光武帝紀 Volume 1b: Annals of Emperor Guangwu — count: 16
- 七月甲子 (七月甲子) 七月甲子 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 16