十干
shí gān
Pinyin

Definition

十干
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shí gān
  1. same as 天干
  2. the 10 heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

三十
sān shí
  1. 1 thirty
  2. 2 30
干
gān
  1. 1 old variant of 乾|干[gān]
干净
gān jìng
  1. 1 clean
  2. 2 neat
二十
èr shí
  1. 1 twenty
  2. 2 20
十
shí
  1. 1 ten
  2. 2 10

Idioms (20)

一干二净
yī gān èr jìng
  1. 1 thoroughly (idiom)
  2. 2 completely
  3. 3 one and all
  4. 4 very clean
一五一十
yī wǔ yī shí
  1. 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
一传十，十传百
yī chuán shí , shí chuán bǎi
  1. 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
  2. 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳
yī nián bèi shé yǎo shí nián pà jǐng shéng
  1. 1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
一暴十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 short attention span