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The Rooster () is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of
The Rooster () is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Biology, biological Kingdom (biology), kingdom Animalia (). With few exceptions, animals heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, ...
s which appear in the Chinese zodiac
The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year (or duodenary) cycle. The zodiac is very important in traditional ...
related to the Chinese calendar
The traditional Chinese calendar, dating back to the Han dynasty, is a lunisolar calendar that blends solar, lunar, and other cycles for social and agricultural purposes. While modern China primarily uses the Gregorian calendar for officia ...
. The Year of the Rooster is represented by the Earthly Branch symbol
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酉
Radical 164 or radical wine () meaning "wine" or "alcohol (drug), alcohol" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 stroke (CJK character), strokes.
In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', 290 characters (out of 49,030) can ...
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In the Tibetan zodiac and the Gurung zodiac, the bird is in place of the Rooster.
Years and the five elements
People born within these date ranges can be said to have been born in the "Year of the Rooster", while bearing the followingelemental
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signs:
Basic astrology elements
See also
* Rooster * Birds in Chinese mythology * FenghuangReferences
Further reading
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