戌

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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 戊 + 一 (“one”)

Han character [edit]

戌 (radical 62 戈+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹一 (IHM), four-corner 53200, composition ⿵戊一)

  1. eleventh of twelve earthly branches (十二支): dog (狗) of Chinese zodiac

Descendants [edit]

References [edit]

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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

戌 (Yale seut1)

Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

戌

Readings [edit]

Noun [edit]

戌 (hiragana いぬ, romaji inu)

  1. the hour of the dog; a historical duel-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.

References [edit]

  • 1989, Masaharu Hasegawa; Yūichirō Imanishi, Hiroshi Itō, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 24: Tosa Nikki, Kagerō Nikki, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, Sarashina Nikki, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240024-7:

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

戌 (hangeul 술, revised sul, McCune-Reischauer sul, Yale swul)

Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

戌 (pinyin xū (xu1), Wade-Giles hsü1)

Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

戌 (tuất)

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