Where does “己卯” come from?

己卯 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 卯, from Japanese 兎 — rabbit; hare; leporid.

己卯 (Japanese): Earth Rabbit, the sixteenth term of the sexagenary cycle

Definitions

  1. Earth Rabbit, the sixteenth term of the sexagenary cycle

Ancestry of “己卯”, step by step

己卯 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 卯

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese卯hare
2Japanese兎rabbit; hare; leporid

via Japanese 己

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese己reflexive pronoun: oneself; first-person pronoun:...
2Middle Chinese己—
Every word from Japanese 兎 →Every word from Japanese 卯 →