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Kanji Detail for 巳 - "snake, zodiac, wisdom"
巳
- Meaning
巳 means "snake, zodiac, wisdom."
Snake - The zodiac animal.
Sixth zodiac sign - The sixth position in the twelve-sign cycle.
Direction - South-southeast.
Time - Around 10 AM, plus or minus one hour.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
sign of the snake or serpent; 9-11AM; sixth sign of Chinese zodiac
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
sixth earthly branch
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake; ancient Chinese compass point: 150°
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
the hours from 9 to 11; 6th terrestrial branch
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The sixth of the twelve earthly branches. From 9 AM to 11 AM is the 巳 hour. Also, 上巳 is a festival. The first 巳 day of the third month was 上巳. In Zheng customs, on this day purification rituals were performed at the Zhen and Wei rivers. See (Han Poetry Commentary). Later it became an occasion for recreation, the so-called spring lustration. After Wei, it was held only on the third day of the third month, no longer on a 巳 day.
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