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Eto and junishi in Japan: native readings, regional animals and a civil calendar remade in 1873.

The Japanese cycle · branch 11

犬

Dog

犬 inu · 戌 inu


Animal and branch are related, not identical

animal犬 · inu
earthly branch戌 · inu
cycle position11 of 12
English variantsnone in this source panel

Five pairings inside sixty years

The five stems that can meet 戌 in one sixty-year round.
etoreadingphasepolarity
甲戌kinoe-inuwoodyang
丙戌hinoe-inufireyang
戊戌tsuchinoe-inuearthyang
庚戌kanoe-inumetalyang
壬戌mizunoe-inuwateryang

Modern supported years: 1874 · 1886 · 1898 · 1910 · 1922 · 1934 · 1946 · 1958 · 1970 · 1982 · 1994 · 2006 · 2018 · 2030 · 2042 · 2054 · 2066 · 2078 · 2090


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 →