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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
| eto | reading | phase | polarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 甲戌 | kinoe-inu | wood | yang |
| 丙戌 | hinoe-inu | fire | yang |
| 戊戌 | tsuchinoe-inu | earth | yang |
| 庚戌 | kanoe-inu | metal | yang |
| 壬戌 | mizunoe-inu | water | yang |
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 →