"Chinese zodiac" meaning in English

See Chinese zodiac in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} Chinese zodiac
  1. A classification scheme that assigns an animal to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle. Wikipedia link: Chinese zodiac
    Sense id: en-Chinese_zodiac-en-noun-ydOJo1h1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for Chinese zodiac meaning in English (0.6kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese zodiac",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A classification scheme that assigns an animal to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle."
      ],
      "id": "en-Chinese_zodiac-en-noun-ydOJo1h1",
      "links": [
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Chinese zodiac"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chinese zodiac"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese zodiac",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A classification scheme that assigns an animal to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Chinese zodiac"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chinese zodiac"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.