Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- hài
English
- twelfth earthly branch
- 12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th solar month (7th November-6th December), year of the Boar
- The twelfth of the Earthly Branches. See 天干地支. ----
- ancient Chinese compass point: 330°
- the twelfth Chinese hour, from 9pm to 11pm
粵語
- 地支嘅第十二位，詳情見天干地支。
- 時辰名；夜晚九點到十一點
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Words containing 亥
- 亥時hoi6 si4
9-11 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
- 亥豬hoi6 zyu1
Year 12, year of the Boar (e.g. 2007)
- 辛亥san1 hoi6
forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031
- 亥時出世hoi6 si4 ceot1 sai3
literally: born at the twelfth hour; an expression used to describe those who bring bad luck upon others or those who are unintentionally destructive [written and colloquial]
- 丁亥ding1 hoi6
twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067
- 己亥gei2 hoi6
thirty-sixth year F12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1959 or 2019
- 乙亥jyut3 hoi6
twelfth year B12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1995 or 2055
- 俄亥俄ngo4 hoi6 ngo4
Ohio
- 癸亥gwai3 hoi6
sixtieth year J12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1983 or 2043
- 辛亥革命san1 hoi6 gaak3 ming6
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
- 俄亥俄州ngo4 hoi6 ngo4 zau1
Ohio
- 魯魚亥豕lou5 jyu4 hoi6 ci2
written characters being easily confused -- clerical errors made inadvertently; printing mistakes owing to similar written forms