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The Japanese cycle · branch 12
猪
Boar
猪 inoshishi · 亥 i
Animal and branch are related, not identical
animal猪 · inoshishi
earthly branch亥 · i
cycle position12 of 12
English variantsWild boar
Translation matters here
Japanese inoshishi is wild boar; Pig is the usual Chinese English label, not the Japanese substitution.
Five pairings inside sixty years
| eto | reading | phase | polarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 乙亥 | kinoto-no-i | wood | yin |
| 丁亥 | hinoto-no-i | fire | yin |
| 己亥 | tsuchinoto-no-i | earth | yin |
| 辛亥 | kanoto-no-i | metal | yin |
| 癸亥 | mizunoto-no-i | water | yin |
Modern supported years: 1875 · 1887 · 1899 · 1911 · 1923 · 1935 · 1947 · 1959 · 1971 · 1983 · 1995 · 2007 · 2019 · 2031 · 2043 · 2055 · 2067 · 2079 · 2091
What this page does not infer
A branch can name a year, month, day, double hour or direction. Its animal does not, by itself, establish a personality or a compatibility verdict. Those claims remain outside this structural corpus.
Sources
National Diet Library, Kanshi: the sixty combinations. Observatory and library controls verify the native readings and animal correspondence. See the complete Japanese panel →