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Earthly Branches, the Glossary

Index Earthly Branches

The Earthly Branches (also called the Terrestrial Branches or the 12-cycle) are a system of twelve ordered symbols used throughout East Asia.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 32 relations: Alphabetical order, Astronomer, Cardinal direction, Chinese astrology, Chinese calendar, Chinese characters, Chinese mythology, Chinese zodiac, Dongzhi (solar term), East Asia, Fukuoka, Heavenly Stems, I Ching, Japanese language, Jupiter, Korean language, Kushida Shrine, Letter (alphabet), Lunar phase, Mongolian language, New moon, Orbital period, Ordinal numeral, Sexagenary cycle, Shang dynasty, Sinitic languages, Sinosphere, Taoism, Vietnamese language, Warring States period, Wuxing (Chinese philosophy), Zheng He.

  2. Chinese character lists
  3. Eastern esotericism
  4. Technical factors of Chinese astrology

Alphabetical order

Alphabetical order is a system whereby character strings are placed in order based on the position of the characters in the conventional ordering of an alphabet.

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Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.

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Cardinal direction

The four cardinal directions, or cardinal points, are the four main compass directions: north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, S, E, and W respectively.

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Chinese astrology

Chinese astrology is based on traditional Chinese astronomy and the Chinese calendar.

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Chinese calendar

The traditional Chinese calendar (l; informally l) is a lunisolar calendar, combining the solar, lunar, and other cycles for various social and agricultural purposes.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.

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Chinese mythology

Chinese mythology is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China.

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Chinese zodiac

The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle.

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Dongzhi (solar term)

The traditional Chinese calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms.

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East Asia

East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

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Fukuoka

Fukuoka (福岡市) is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Heavenly Stems

The ten Heavenly Stems (or Celestial Stems) are a system of ordinals indigenous to China and used throughout East Asia, first attested during the Shang dynasty as the names of the ten days of the week. Earthly Branches and Heavenly Stems are Chinese character lists and Eastern esotericism.

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I Ching

The I Ching or Yijing, usually translated Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Korean language

Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.

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Kushida Shrine

is a Shinto shrine located in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Letter (alphabet)

In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two.

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Lunar phase

A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, the same hemisphere is always facing the Earth).

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Mongolian language

Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau.

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New moon

In astronomy, the new moon is the first lunar phase, when the Moon and Sun have the same ecliptic longitude.

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Orbital period

The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object.

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Ordinal numeral

In linguistics, ordinal numerals or ordinal number words are words representing position or rank in a sequential order; the order may be of size, importance, chronology, and so on (e.g., "third", "tertiary").

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Sexagenary cycle

The sexagenary cycle, also known as the stems-and-branches or ganzhi (gānzhī), is a cycle of sixty terms, each corresponding to one year, thus a total of sixty years for one cycle, historically used for recording time in China and the rest of the East Asian cultural sphere and Southeast Asia.

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Shang dynasty

The Shang dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty, was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou dynasty.

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Sinitic languages

The Sinitic languages, often synonymous with the Chinese languages, are a group of East Asian analytic languages that constitute a major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Sinosphere

The Sinosphere, also known as the Chinese cultural sphere, East Asian cultural sphere, or the Sinic world, encompasses multiple countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically heavily influenced by Chinese culture.

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Taoism

Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao—generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality.

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Vietnamese language

Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language.

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Warring States period

The Warring States period was an era in ancient Chinese history characterized by warfare, bureaucratic and military reform, and political consolidation.

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Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)

(五行|p. Earthly Branches and Wuxing (Chinese philosophy) are Eastern esotericism.

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Zheng He

Zheng He (also romanized Cheng Ho; 1371–1433/1435) was a Chinese fleet admiral, explorer, diplomat, and bureaucrat during the early Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

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See also

Chinese character lists

Eastern esotericism

Technical factors of Chinese astrology

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthly_Branches

Also known as Animal zodiac, Animals zodiac, Chinese directions, Earthly Branch, Earthly stems, Shi'er Zhi, Terrestrial Branches, Terrestrial branch, Twelve earthly branches, .