Gēngzǐ nián duìyìng liùshí jiǎzǐ zhōng de yí gè zǔhé.
The year gengzi corresponds to one combination in the sixty-year cycle.
Tips
culture
庚 is the seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems, paired with the Earthly Branches to mark years. It also politely means a person's age, as in 贵庚 ('your honored age?') and 同庚 (the same age).
Components
pictograph
庚gēng
the seventh Heavenly Stem
Originally a picture of a hand-held tool, perhaps a winnowing or threshing implement, later borrowed purely for its sound as a calendar stem. Indexed under Kangxi radical 53 广 (yǎn, shelter) by tradition, though the modern fused form no longer breaks into independent parts.
Filed under radical 广 (guǎng, #53) by convention. 广 is not a separate component in 庚, so no strokes are highlighted.
