粵

甲gaap3子zi2

gaap3 zi2jiǎ zǐ

English

  1. first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1])
  2. 60 years
  3. the sixty-year cycle

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 六十年;源於古時以十天干同十二地支循環,以甲子至癸亥呢六十種組合為一周(量詞:個)

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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