Where does “戊寅” come from?

戊寅 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 寅, from Japanese 虎 — a tiger.

戊寅 (Japanese): Earth Tiger, the fifteenth term of the sexagenary cycle

Definitions

  1. Earth Tiger, the fifteenth term of the sexagenary cycle

Ancestry of “戊寅”, step by step

戊寅 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 寅

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese寅tiger
2Japanese虎a tiger

via Japanese 戊

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese戊the fifth of the ten heavenly stems
2Middle Chinese戊—
Every word from Japanese 虎 →Every word from Japanese 寅 →