天干

Traditional form:

天干

Pinyin (reading):

tiāngān

Definitions:

• the 10 heavenly stems 甲 (jiǎ), 乙 (yǐ), 丙 (bǐng), 丁 (dīng), 戊 (wù), 己 (jǐ), 庚 (gēng), 辛 (xīn), 壬 (rén), 癸 (guǐ), used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc

Characters:

• 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
• 干 - arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade

Traditional characters:

• 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
• 干 - arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade