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甲紫

jiǎ zǐ

2-character word

What 甲紫 means

1. gentian violet

The characters in 甲紫

• 甲jiǎfirst of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; (used for an unspecified person or thing)…
• 紫zǐpurple; violet

Sounds the same

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

• 甲子first year of the sixty-year cycle…
• 假子adopted son; stepson

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