地支 dìzhī

dìzhī phrase the twelve Earthly branches
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
Notes: The 10 earthly branches are 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥; they combine with the ten stems of heaven to make a cycle of sixty years (CC-CEDICT '地支'; Guoyu '地支'; Mathews 1931 '地支', p. 130)

Contained in

• 天干地支 the ten heavenly stems and the twelve Earthly branches
• 十二地支 the twelve earthly branches

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• 卷八十 志第五十六 食貨四 Volume 80 Treatises 56: Finance and Economics 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 1