created sense approved 十天干 · shítiāngān · ten Heavenly Stems — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
十天干
shítiāngān
ten Heavenly Stems
The ancient Chinese system of ten cyclic characters: [[甲|甲|jia3]], [[乙|乙|yi3]], [[丙|丙|bing3]], [[丁|丁|ding1]], [[戊|戊|wu4]], [[己|己|ji3]], [[庚|庚|geng1]], [[辛|辛|xin1]], [[壬|壬|ren2]], and [[癸|癸|gui3]]; used for calendar cycles and as ordinal numbers like I, II, and III.
十 (literal) → 十 · shí · ten 天干 (literal) → 天干 · tiāngān · Heavenly Stems
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition