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<td class="st">C1</td>
<td class="st">the first of two characters required to designate a lunar cycle in a <a href="ngs-cd00.htm" target="define">Chinese-Japanese-Korean date phrase</a> described by <a href="ngs-psrl.htm" target="define">PS<span class="xsc">-RULE</span></a> ODP2: 
there are ten possible ideographs in use: 1) 甲, 2) 乙, 3) 丙, 4)丁, 5) 戊, 6) 己, 7) 庚, 8) 辛, 9) 壬, 10) 癸 </td></tr>
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