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Also known as Ox (zodiac)
2nd sign of Chinese zodiac
Key facts
- Chinese
- 牛
- Hanyu pinyin
- niú
- Wade giles
- niu
- Ipa
- [njo ̌ ʊ]
- Romanization
- ngiù
- Yale romanization
- ngàuh
- Jyutping
- ngau4
- Hokkien poj
- gû
- Fuzhou buc
- ngiù
- Jian ou romanized
- niû
- Middle chinese
- ngiu
- Baxter 1992
- * ŋʷjɨ
- Baxter sagart 2014
- * ŋʷə
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Zodiacal ox, showing the Chinese character niú (牛), meaning "ox" or "bovine creature". The same character is also used in some related languages. Carving of a bovine animal ("ox"), at Mount Hôrai-ji Buddhist Temple, Aichi Prefecture, Japan: a stone monument showing the Earthly Branch symbol chǒu (丑)
The Ox (牛) is the second of the 12-year periodic sequence (cycle) of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar, and also appears in related calendar systems.
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