庚
Ancient forms
3 forms- Oracle boneShang
- BronzeWestern Zhou
- Small sealQin–Han
- 庚RegularToday
Glyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
gēng geng1
- age
- seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 (shí tiān gān)
- seventh in order
- letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
- ancient Chinese compass point: 255°
- hepta
Example sentences
- Hua Luogeng is a mathematician.
Words with 庚
- 庚子gēngzǐ37th year G1 of the 60-year cycle, e.g. 1960 or 2020
- 年庚niángēngdate and time of a person's birth
- 庚糖gēngtángheptose (CH2O)7, monosaccharide with seven carbon atoms
- 贵庚guìgēngyour age (honorific)
- 庚申gēngshēnfifty-seventh year G9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1980 or 2040
- 仓庚cānggēngblack-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
- 庚午gēngwǔseventh year G7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1990 or 2050
- 庚辰gēngchénseventeenth year G5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2000 or 2060
- 庚戌gēngxūforty-seventh year G11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1970 or 2030
- 庚寅gēngyíntwenty-seventh year G3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2010 or 2070
- 庚子国变gēngzǐguóbiànthe crisis year of 1900 involving the Boxer uprising and the eight nation military invasion
- 长庚ChánggēngClassical Chinese name for planet Venus in the west after dusk