Earthly Branches

The days are grouped within a 12-day week, which is called the 12 earthly branches.

The names of the earthly branches have no English translations.

Each is named after one of the 12 Earthly Branches.

The Earthly Branches are associated with the 12 signs of the zodiac.

Similarly the Earthly Branches also advances by one per year, cyclically.

The Chinese use a 12 year cycle for time-reckoning called Earthly Branches.

Since the Han Dynasty, the 12 Earthly Branches have been used to record the time of day.

The central square could have an inscription, or contain the characters of the Twelve Earthly Branches.

The Vietnamese Earthly Branches use cat instead of Rabbit.

Traditional Chinese calendars, clocks, and compasses are based on the twelve Earthly Branches.

"Two of the Earthly Branches" (chamber music)

The 12 zodiac animal reference is a folkloric representation of the 12 Earthly Branches.

When the twelve zodiac signs are part of the 60-year calendar in combination with the four elements, they are traditionally called the twelve earthly branches.

These are animal in form, caricatures of the symbols that these figures carry, which come from the Chinese counting series Earthly Branches.

Earthly Branches (traditional Chinese timekeeping)

The 'Year of the Dog' is associated with the earthly branches symbol 'wikt:戌'.

Whilst the ancillary first and last fascicles explain topics like stroke order and radicals, the main ones are named after the twelve Earthly Branches.

The Pig (豬) is the twelfth and the last sign of the Earthly Branches ( 亥).

The Earthly Branches are today used with the Heavenly Stems in the current version of the "traditional calendar" and in Taoism.

He also included as section headers all the sexagenary cycle characters, that is, the ten Heavenly Stems and twelve Earthly Branches.

Her motifs while a Genshou are the Vermilion Bird and the Rooster of the Earthly Branches.

This system is based on two forms of counting: a cycle of 10 Heavenly Stems and a cycle of 12 Earthly Branches.

The Heavenly Stems were used in combination with the Earthly Branches, a similar cycle of twelve days, to produce a compound cycle of sixty days.

Since the numbers 10 (Heavenly Stems) and 12 (Earthly Branches) have a common factor of 2, only 1/2 of the 120 possible stem-branch combinations actually occur.

The months, days and hours can also be denoted using Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, though they are commonly addressed using Chinese numerals instead.