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radical may be added to the corresponding ordinal to denote an uppercase letter. In addition to the calendar months, each branch has been associated with several distinct cultural categories, including animals and the hours of the day, with some regional variation.
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for directions by English-speaking pilots. Since twelve points were not enough for sailing, 12 midpoints were added. Instead of combining two adjacent direction names, they assigned new names: for the four diagonal directions, appropriate trigram names of
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There are several theories about the origin of the Earthly Branches prior to the advent of the historical record. One theory is that the Earthly Branches were adapted from observations of the planet
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The earliest attested use of the Earthly Branches and Heavenly Stems is in recording cycles of days. The ten Heavenly Stems provided names for the days of the week during the
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The 24 cardinal directions assigned to Earthly Branches and Heavenly Stems, with south (red) placed at the top according to the traditional convention
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is roughly twelve Earth years long. Jonathan Smith has proposed that the first meanings of the earthly branches, predating the Shang, were
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Pankenier, David W. (2011), "Getting "Right" with Heaven and the Origins of Writing in China", in
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position in the list. Cultural applications of the Branches include a dating system known as the
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preferred using the 12 directions of the Earthly Branches, analogous to the use of
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practice. Many Chinese calendrical systems have started the new year on the second
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Writing and Literacy in Early China: Studies from the Columbia Early China Seminar
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were used. For the rest, Heavenly Stems 1–4 and 7–10 were used. According to the
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Smith, Adam (2015), "Cyclical Signs", in Sybesma, Rint (ed.),
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theory, east is assigned to wood, and the Stems of wood are
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The branches each have specific names in languages of the
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Index

Earthly branch

Chinese zodiac
Kushida Shrine
Fukuoka
Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jyutping
Southern Min
Hokkien
POJ
Vietnamese alphabet
Chữ Hán
Hangul
Hanja
Revised Romanization
Kanji
Hiragana
Romanization
East Asia
Chinese characters
ordinal
sexagenary cycle
astrology
Heavenly Stems
Chinese calendars
Taoist

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