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Depicts an instrument like a gong. Based on the original meaning "gong", now written as 鉦. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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The character 庚 originated as a pictograph of a gong-like instrument, a meaning now written 鉦. Its modern form is a single unit with no internal semantic or phonetic components. It was adopted as a phonetic loan for the seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems, which are combined with the Earthly Branches to designate years, months, days, and hours in traditional Chinese astrology and timekeeping. In Five Elements theory, 庚 represents Metal and the direction West, and in formal literary contexts it often stands for age or chronological records.
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李庚是我的好朋友。
今年是庚子年。
王庚在银行工作。
庚子年发生了很多变化。
我的弟弟名叫张庚。
李庚和王庚是大学同学。
在庚申日那天，我们举行了庆祝活动。
庚在五行中属于金。
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