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天干

tiān gān

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tiān gān
  1. 1.the 10 heavenly stems 甲[jiǎ], 乙[yǐ], 丙[bǐng], 丁[dīng], 戊[wù], 己[jǐ], 庚[gēng], 辛[xīn], 壬[rén], 癸[guǐ], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc

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  1. 1.heavenly stem: one of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent
  2. 2.A day of the traditional ten-day week.
  3. 3.One of the ten suns thought to appear in succession on its appointed day of the traditional week
  4. 4.The ancestor venerated with a ritual on the appointed day of the traditional week.
  5. 5.An ordinal, used in similar contexts to Roman numerals in English numbering and outlining.
  6. 6.The set of ten heavenly stems as a whole.
  7. 7.drought

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