Where does “己亥” come from?
己亥 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 亥, from Japanese 猪, from Japanese の, from Old Japanese の, from Middle Chinese 能 — talent, ability.
己亥 (Japanese): Earth Boar, the thirty-sixth term of the sexagenary cycle
Definitions
- Earth Boar, the thirty-sixth term of the sexagenary cycle
Ancestry of “己亥”, step by step
己亥 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 亥
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 亥 | the Boar, the twelfth of the twelve Earthly Branches |
| 2 | Japanese | 猪 | a wild boar, "Sus scrofa"; a pig or wild boar;... |
| 3 | Japanese | の | genitive case marker; nominative case marker in a... |
| 4 | Old Japanese | の | plain, field |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 能 | talent, ability |
via Japanese 己
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 己 | reflexive pronoun: oneself; first-person pronoun:... |
| 2 | Middle Chinese | 己 | — |