十二生肖 shí'èrshēngxiào Chinese zodiac Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 十二 shí'èr numeral twelve the number twelve; 12生肖 shēngxiào noun Chinese zodiac any of the twelve animals associated with the year of a person's birth, symbolic of the twelve terrestrial branches 地支 dìzhī