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辛未
かのとひつじしんび
1. [n]
▶ Metal Sheep (8th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1931, 1991, 2051)
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 1650120 干支 1. sexagenary cycle; 60-term cycle of 12 zodiac animals combined with 5 elements in the traditional Chinese calendar; currently used in Japan for years, historically also for days



History:
7. A 2022-01-29 01:39:35  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
year→term
  Diff:
@@ -16 +16 @@
-<gloss>Metal Sheep (8th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1931, 1991, 2051)</gloss>
+<gloss>Metal Sheep (8th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1931, 1991, 2051)</gloss>
6. A 2020-06-26 00:41:19  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -16 +16 @@
-<gloss>year of the Metal Sheep (8th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1931, 1991, 2051)</gloss>
+<gloss>Metal Sheep (8th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1931, 1991, 2051)</gloss>
5. A 2020-06-23 07:30:53  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -16 +16 @@
-<gloss>year of the Metal Sheep (8th year of the sexagenary cycle)</gloss>
+<gloss>year of the Metal Sheep (8th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1931, 1991, 2051)</gloss>
4. A 2020-06-23 05:52:27  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2020-06-22 06:17:57  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
"year of the sheep" is 2-4x more common than goat/ram in the google books' ngrams
sheep gets the most googits for "year of the metal x" also
  Diff:
@@ -16 +16 @@
-<gloss>eighth of the sexagenary cycle</gloss>
+<gloss>year of the Metal Sheep (8th year of the sexagenary cycle)</gloss>
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