庚 — Chinese character
庚
gēng
age; 7th heavenly stem
- Pinyin
- gēng
- Radical
- 53 ⼴ (Dotted Cliff)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 广
- Japanese
- 庚 as a kanji
Common words with 庚
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 庚子 | gēng zǐ | 37th year G1 of the 60-year cycle, e.g. 1960 or 2020 |
| 庚申 | gēng shēn | fifty-seventh year G9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1980 or 2040 |
| 庚午 | gēng wǔ | seventh year G7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1990 or 2050 |
| 贵庚 (貴庚) | guì gēng | your age (honorific) |
| 庚辰 | gēng chén | seventeenth year G5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2000 or 2060 |
| 庚寅 | gēng yín | twenty-seventh year G3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2010 or 2070 |
| 庚戌 | gēng xū | forty-seventh year G11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1970 or 2030 |
| 年庚 | nián gēng | date and time of a person's birth; age |
| 仓庚 (倉庚) | cāng gēng | black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis) |
| 庚子国变 (庚子國變) | gēng zǐ guó biàn | the crisis year of 1900 involving the Boxer uprising and the eight nation military invasion |
| 庚糖 | gēng táng | heptose (CH2O)7, monosaccharide with seven carbon atoms |
庚 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 2 · Zhuangzi 7
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