Where does “甲寅” come from?

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

甲寅 (Japanese): Wood Tiger, the fifty-first term of the sexagenary cycle

Definitions

  1. Wood Tiger, the fifty-first term of the sexagenary cycle

Ancestry of “甲寅”, step by step

甲寅 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 寅

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese寅tiger
2Japanese虎a tiger

via Japanese 甲

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese甲carapace, shell; something A; armor
2Middle Chinese甲—
Every word from Japanese 虎 →Every word from Japanese 寅 →
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