巳
sì
Pinyin
Definition
巳
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- 6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake
- ancient Chinese compass point: 150°
Character Decomposition
Compounds (24)
- 1 to rise
- 2 to raise
- 3 to get up
- 4 to set out
- 5 to start
- 6 to appear
- 7 to launch
- 8 to initiate (action)
- 9 to draft
- 10 to establish
- 11 to get (from a depot or counter)
- 12 verb suffix, to start
- 13 starting from (a time, place, price etc)
- 14 classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
- 15 classifier for groups: batch, group
- 1 already
- 2 to stop
- 3 then
- 4 afterwards
- 1 self
- 2 oneself
- 3 sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān]
- 4 sixth in order
- 5 letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
- 6 hexa
- 1 to record
- 2 to note
- 3 to memorize
- 4 to remember
- 5 mark
- 6 sign
- 7 classifier for blows, kicks, shots
- 1 to change
- 2 to alter
- 3 to transform
- 4 to correct
Related Words (5)
- 1 fifty-fourth year D6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1977 or 2037
- 1 sixth year F6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1989 or 2049
- 1 6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake
- 2 ancient Chinese compass point: 150°
- 1 9-11 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
- 1 thirtieth year J6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2013 or 2073