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甲子

jiǎ zǐ

2-character word

What 甲子 means

1. first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems {天干|tiān gān} and one of the 12 earthly branches {地支|dì zhī})
2. the sixty-year cycle

The characters in 甲子

• 甲jiǎfirst of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; (used for an unspecified person or thing)…
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Words containing 甲子

• 一甲子yī jiǎ zǐsixty years

Sounds the same

Read jiǎ zǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 假子adopted son; stepson
• 甲紫gentian violet