庚
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age; seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; seventh in order; letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 255°; hepta
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 广 +5
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 庚
- Common rank
- #2,865
- Unicode
- U+5E9A
Formation & memory
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How 庚 is formed
Words with 庚
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 庚子国变 | the crisis year of 1900 involving the Boxer uprising and the eight nation military invasio… | |
| 华罗庚 | Hua Luogeng (1910-1985), Chinese number theorist | |
| 庚子 | 37th year G1 of the 60-year cycle, e.g. 1960 or 2020 | |
| 长庚 | Classical Chinese name for planet Venus in the west after dusk | |
| 年庚 | date and time of a person's birth; age | |
| 庚糖 | heptose (CH2O)7, monosaccharide with seven carbon atoms | |
| 贵庚 | your age (honorific) | |
| 庚申 | fifty-seventh year G9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1980 or 2040 | |
| 仓庚 | black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis) | |
| 庚午 | seventh year G7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1990 or 2050 | |
| 庚辰 | seventeenth year G5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2000 or 2060 | |
| 庚戌 | forty-seventh year G11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1970 or 2030 | |
| 庚寅 | twenty-seventh year G3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2010 or 2070 |
Sound family
These characters use 庚 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 庚 sound part | age; 7th heavenly stem | |
| 赓 | to continue a song | |
| 鹒 | oriole |