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庚

gēng

Character

What 庚 means

1. age
2. seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems {十天干|shí tiān gān}
3. seventh in order
4. letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
5. ancient Chinese compass point: 255°
6. hepta

Example sentences

• 华罗庚是一个数学家。
  Huà Luógēng shì yī gèshù xué jiā.
  Hua Luogeng is a mathematician.

Words starting with 庚

• 庚子gēng zǐ37th year G1 of the 60-year cycle, e.g. 1960 or 2020
• 庚辰gēng chénseventeenth year G5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2000 or 2060
• 庚申gēng shēnfifty-seventh year G9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1980 or 2040
• 庚午gēng wǔseventh year G7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1990 or 2050
• 庚寅gēng yíntwenty-seventh year G3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2010 or 2070
• 庚糖gēng tángheptose (CH2O)7, monosaccharide with seven carbon atoms
• 庚子国变gēng zǐ guó biànthe crisis year of 1900 involving the Boxer uprising and the eight nation military…
• 庚戌gēng xūforty-seventh year G11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1970 or 2030

Words containing 庚

• 华罗庚Huà Luó gēngHua Luogeng (1910-1985), Chinese number theorist
• 仓庚cāng gēngblack-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
• 年庚nián gēngdate and time of a person's birth; age
• 贵庚guì gēngyour age (honorific)
• 长庚Cháng gēngClassical Chinese name for planet Venus in the west after dusk

Characters that look like 庚

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 来láito come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)…
• 屎shǐfeces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
• 辰chén5th earthly branch: 7-9 a.m., 3rd solar month (5th April-4th May), year of the Dragon…
• 屄bīcunt (vulgar)
• 屌diǎopenis; (slang) cool or extraordinary; (Cantonese) to fuck
• 戾lìto bend; to violate; to go against

Sounds the same

Read gēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 耕to plow; to till
• 羹thick soup
• 更to change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the…
• 赓(literary) to continue; to carry on
• 㹴terrier; also pr. gěng
• 浭name of a river in Hebei
• 緪a rope
• 鹒used in 鸧鹒
• 羮variant of 羹
• 焿variant of 羹
• 絚old variant of 緪