Definition
庚 is the seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems (天干), a set of ten characters used in the traditional Chinese sexagenary cycle for counting years, months, days, and hours. It also appears in formal or literary expressions related to age, such as 年庚 (birth year) and 同庚 (same age). As a noun, it is not used in everyday conversation but appears in historical, calendrical, and astrological contexts.
n.
the seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems(literary) ageespecially in the context of birth years
Examples
- 庚。gēng shì tiāngān zhōng de dì qī wèi.Geng is the seventh position among the Heavenly Stems.
- 庚。gēng zǐ nián chūshēng de rén shǔ shǔ.People born in the Gengzi year are born in the Year of the Rat.
- 庚，。Tāmen liǎ nián gēng xiāngtóng, suǒyǐ guānxì hěn hǎo.The two of them have the same birth year, so they get along well.
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