花甲

Chinese

		intricate; complicated	1st heavenly stem; armour; shell
trad. (花甲)		花	甲
simp. #(花甲)		花	甲

Etymology

Named for the complicated pairings of the heavenly stems and the earthly branches in the names of the sixty years in the cycle.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huājiǎ

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚ ㄐㄧㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faa¹ gaap³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fâ-kap
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoa-kah / hoe-kah
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹ho-ciaq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huājiǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚ ㄐㄧㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huajiǎ
    • Wade–Giles: hua¹-chia³
    • Yale: hwā-jyǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huajea
    • Palladius: хуацзя (xuaczja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faa¹ gaap³
    • Yale: fā gaap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faa¹ gaap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: fa¹ gab³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faː⁵⁵ kaːp̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fâ-kap
    • Hakka Romanization System: fa´ gab`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fa¹ gab⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /fa²⁴ kap̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoa-kah
    • Tâi-lô: hua-kah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoa'kaq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hua⁴⁴⁻³³ kaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hua³³ kaʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hua⁴⁴⁻²² kaʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoe-kah
    • Tâi-lô: hue-kah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoe'kaq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hue⁴⁴⁻³³ kaʔ³²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹ho-ciaq
    • MiniDict: ho^平 ciah
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ho-jiaq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ho⁵⁵ t͡ɕiaʔ²¹/

Noun

花甲

1. complete sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar
2. sixty years of age
3. (originally dialectal) Alternative name for 花蛤 (huāgé).

Synonyms

• 甲子 (jiǎzǐ)
• (sixty years of age): (Hakka, Huizhou) 花甲子

Derived terms

• 年近花甲
• 花甲之年 (huājiǎzhīnián)

 

See also

• 干支 (gānzhī)