甲子

Traditional form:

甲子

Pinyin (reading):

jiǎzǐ

Definitions:

• first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干 (tiāngān) and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支 (dìzhī))
• the sixty-year cycle

Characters:

• 甲 - armor, shell; fingernails; 1st heavenly stem
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing

Traditional characters:

• 甲 - armor, shell; fingernails; 1st heavenly stem
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing