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Kanji Detail for 戊 - "fifth, earth, central"
戊
- Meaning
戊 means "fifth, earth, central."
Fifth stem - The fifth of the ten celestial stems.
Earth element - Associated with earth in five elements.
Central direction - The center in directional system.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
5th calendar sign
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
5th heavenly stem
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; fifth in order; letter "E" or Roman "V" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; penta
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
5th heavenly stem
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The fifth of the ten heavenly stems. Emperor Taizu of Liang avoided his great-grandfather Maolin's name taboo, changing the reading to 武. This continues today.
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