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十二支 (sap6 ji6 zi1) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

十二支 (sap6 ji6 zi1, shí èr zhī) — the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)

Classifier

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Usage

Level

beyond HSK

Related words

• 十一個字 (sap6 jat1 go3 zi6) — eleven words or characters; fifty-five minutes
• 十一日 (sap6 jat1 jat6) — eleven days; eleventh [date]
• 十七世紀 (sap6 cat1 sai3 gei2) — 17th century
• 十七日 (sap6 cat1 jat6) — seventeen days; seventeenth [date]
• 十三么 (sap6 saam1 jiu1) — terminal tiles, a type of winning hand in game of Mahjong
• 十三恐懼症 (sap6 saam1 hung2 geoi6 zing3) — Triskaidekaphobia, a disorder of being scared of the digit "13"

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