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Kanji Detail for 曆 - "calendar, time, fate"
曆
- Meaning
曆 means "calendar, time, fate."
Calendar - A system for organizing time; record of days and seasons.
Almanac - A yearly publication with astronomical data.
Fate - The course of events; destiny as it unfolds.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
calendar; era
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
calendar, era
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
calendar
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
history; calendar
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The positions of the sun, moon, and stars are called 曆. Hence calculating to determine the seasons and solar terms is called 曆法 (calendar system). Books published to record time are colloquially called 曆本 (almanac). The old Chinese calendar uses Earth's rotation to count days, the moon orbiting Earth to count months, and Earth orbiting the sun to count years. Westerners call it the lunar calendar because its special feature is in counting months. The current Western calendar counts days and years the same as the old calendar, dividing a year into twelve months ranging from twenty-eight to thirty-one days. Because it uses only the sun for yearly calculation, it is called the solar calendar.
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