辰
Meanings
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- 1.5th earthly branch: 7-9 a.m., 3rd solar month (5th April-4th May), year of the Dragon
- 2.ancient Chinese compass point: 120°
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Wiktionary
- 1.to vibrate
- 2.fifth of twelve earthly branches (地支), variously equated with
- 3.dragon (龍)
- 4.a bearing of 120° (between ESE and SE)
- 5.the 3rd lunar month (三月)
- 6.the 5th day or year in a dozen
- 7.the 2-hour period between 7 and 9 am
- 8.time; day; season
- 9.heavenly body; stars
- 10.a surname
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a kind of agricultural tool used for tilling the fields and removing weeds (Guo, 1931; Qiu, 1992), possibly made of a kind of large clam 蜃 (OC *djɯns, *djɯnʔ, *djins) (Guo, 1931). Alternatively, it could be a pictogram (象形) of a person holding onto a cliff – original character of 振 (OC *tjɯn, *tjɯns, “to hold up”) (Shang, 1983). ; “to vibrate” ; “fifth earthly branch” :Smith (2011) agrees with the proposal (e.g. by Guo, 1931) that 辰 (OC dən) initially depicted an agricultural implement made from clams' shells and was the original form of 蜃 (OC dəns, “mollusc, clam”); so he proposes that the fifth earthly branch depicted the moon's second waning-gibbous phase, which looks like a clam. He also suggests that 辰 (chén) also represented the ovoid-shaped rising sun and is thus related to 晨 (chén, “early morning”). ; “time” ; “heavenly body”
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