癸卯

guǐmǎo
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 guimao, the 40th year of the sixty-year cycle (e.g. 1903, 1963, 2023)

Examples

HSK 6
Tā shì guǐmǎo nián chūshēng de, shǔ tù.
She was born in a guimao year, so her zodiac animal is the Rabbit.

Tips

culture
Years in the traditional calendar pair one of ten Heavenly Stems with one of twelve Earthly Branches. 癸 is the tenth and last stem and 卯 the fourth branch, the Rabbit, so every 癸卯 year is a Year of the Rabbit: 1903, 1963, 2023 and next 2083.
history
The school regulations the Qing court issued in January 1904 are known as the 癸卯学制, because they came out late in the guimao lunar year. They gave China its first modern school system to be put into practice nationwide.

Stroke Order

癸 guǐ
卯 mǎo