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Key facts
- Chinese
- 狗
- Hanyu pinyin
- gǒu
- Wade giles
- kou
- Ipa
- [ko ̀ ʊ]
- Yale romanization
- gáu
- Jyutping
- gau2
- Hokkien poj
- kó͘ / kió / káu
- Fuzhou buc
- gēu
- Jian ou romanized
- gě / ě
- Baxter sagart 2014
- * Cə.kˤroʔ
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Zodiac dog, showing the gǒu (狗) character for dog Chinese paper cutting The Dog (狗) is eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Dog is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 戌. The character 狗 also refers to the actual animal while 戌, also refers to the zodiac animal.
Years and the Five Elements
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dog” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.