Chinese word senses marked with topical category "Astrology"
Parent categories: Divination, Obsolete scientific theories, Pseudoscience, Occult, History of science, Sciences, Forteana, Supernatural, History, Folklore, Culture, Society
Subcategories: Chinese zodiac signs, Constellations in the zodiac
Total 50 word senses
- 人馬宮 (Proper name) Sagittarius
- 分野 (Noun) division of the sky into zones (especially for astrological association with the lands of China)
- 十二宮 (Noun) twelve signs of the zodiac
- 十二次 (Noun) the twelve zones of the sky (astrologically associated with lands of China)
- 午 (Character) the seventh of twelve earthly branches:; the seventh year of the Jovian orbital cycle
- 占星術 (Noun) astrology
- 地支 (Noun) An earthly branch: one of the twelve terms used in East Asian cultures to represent; The twelve animals representing the Chinese zodiac, particularly as a birthyear.
- 天干 (Noun) heavenly stem: one of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent; A day of the traditional ten-day week.
- 天秤宮 (Proper name) Libra
- 天秤座 (Proper name) Libra
- 天蠍座 (Proper name) Scorpio, Scorpius
- 太歲 (Proper name) the twelve or (later) sixty stars considered to oppose Jupiter during its roughly twelve year orbital cycle
- 子 (Character) First earthly branch: rat in the Chinese zodiac, 11th solar month, midnight (11:00 pm to 1:00 am)
- 孛星 (Noun) ominous star
- 室女座 (Proper name) Virgo (star sign)
- 寶瓶 (Noun) Short for 寶瓶座/宝瓶座 (Bǎopíngzuò, “Aquarius”).
- 射手座 (Proper name) Sagittarius
- 山羊座 (Proper name) Capricorn
- 巨蟹宮 (Proper name) Cancer
- 巨蟹座 (Proper name) Cancer
- 摩羯座 (Proper name) Capricorn (star sign)
- 星座 (Noun) astrological sign; star sign
- 本命年 (Noun) year of one's birth sign; zodiac year
- 水逆 (Noun) the retrograde motion of Mercury, or the bad luck it brings; or, bad luck in general
- 水逆 (Verb) to have bad luck due to the retrograde motion of Mercury; or, to have bad luck in general
- 牛 (Character) awesome; powerful
- 狗 (Character) dog (Classifier: 隻/只 m c mn; 條/条 m)
- 猴 (Character) male paramour
- 獅子 (Proper name) Short for 獅子座/狮子座 (Shīzizuò, “Leo”).
- 獅子宮 (Proper name) Leo
- 獅子座 (Proper name) Leo
- 白羊宮 (Proper name) Aries
- 羊 (Character) a surname, Yang
- 蛇 (Character) snake; serpent (Classifier: 條/条 m c; 尾 mn)
- 蛇 (Character) herpes zoster; shingles
- 蛇 (Character) sir (used when addressing policemen or male schoolteachers)
- 豬 (Character) pig; hog; swine (Classifier: 頭/头 m; 口 m; 隻/只 c mn; 條/条 c h)
- 超級月亮 (Noun) supermoon
- 金牛宮 (Proper name) Taurus
- 陰壽 (Noun) age after death
- 雙子 (Proper name) Gemini
- 雙魚 (Proper name) Pisces (star sign)
- 雙魚座 (Proper name) Pisces
- 雞 (Character) 10th of the Chinese zodiac animals (rooster)
- 馬 (Character) to keep a straight face
- 黃道十二宮 (Noun) the twelve signs of the Zodiac
- 黃道帶 (Noun) zodiac; belt of the Western zodiac
- 黑道 (Noun) inauspicious day
- 鼠 (Character) Rat (first of the Chinese zodiac signs)
- 龍 (Character) Chinese dragon (Classifier: 條/条 m c h; 尾 mn)
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