On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
From memory, although my memory may be faulty, there are some slight
differences between the animals assigned in the Chinese calendars and
the animals assigned in the Vietnamese calendar.
There's also a Turkic cycle of animals borrowed from the
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Andrew C. West wrote:
I have a half-finished page that gives the names of the twelve
calendrical animals in the languages of various peoples within and
bordering China that have adopted the Chinese calendrical system,
available at :
From memory, although my memory may be faulty, there are some slight
differences between the animals assigned in the Chinese calendars and
the animals assigned in the Vietnamese calendar.
in the Vietnamese sequence, it is goat. while most chinese sources
indicate sheep (occasionally they say
And
the Boston Globe has it as the year of the ghost
Stolen from Mathews, as it happens.
On Google, year of the goat
has the
lead.
Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether
it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
Michael Everson wrote:
Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether
it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
Ram.
Eric.
At 10:19 -0800 2003-02-01, Eric Muller wrote:
Michael Everson wrote:
Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether
it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
Ram.
europe.cnn.com (which I was looking at for other, sadder reasons),
says Goat. My local
+7F8A is
sheep, goat; KangXi radical 123. On Google, year of the goat has the
lead.
And it is 4701 or 4700?--the only thing that is certain is that it is the
guiwei year of the sixty-year cycle of Cathay.
Thomas Chan
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On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Thomas Chan wrote:
And the website of the Pearl River (www.pearlriver.com) department store
in New York City says "lamb"! unihan.txt says that U+7F8A is
"sheep, goat; KangXi radical 123".
Stolen from Mathews, as it happens.
On Google, "year of
Thomas Chan scripsit:
And it is 4701 or 4700?--the only thing that is certain is that it is the
guiwei year of the sixty-year cycle of Cathay.
So that line of Tennyson's only meant that Europe did things 6/5 as
fast as China? I interpreted cycle in that context to mean a
century (cf. French
John H. Jenkins scripsit:
KangXi says (if I'm understanding it correctly)
something like animal with curved horns. (It's more complex than
that, but I think I caught the essence.)
It reminds me of the desperate definition of horse, sense 1, in the
English-language _Century Dictionary_
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