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The Japanese cycle · branch 4
兎
Rabbit
兎 usagi · 卯 u
Animal and branch are related, not identical
animal兎 · usagi
earthly branch卯 · u
cycle position4 of 12
English variantsHare
Five pairings inside sixty years
| eto | reading | phase | polarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 丁卯 | hinoto-no-u | fire | yin |
| 己卯 | tsuchinoto-no-u | earth | yin |
| 辛卯 | kanoto-no-u | metal | yin |
| 癸卯 | mizunoto-no-u | water | yin |
| 乙卯 | kinoto-no-u | wood | yin |
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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 →