十二地支

1. • the 12 earthly branches 子 zǐ, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)

Character by character

• 十(shí)ten
• 二(èr)two
• 地(dì)earth
• 支(zhī)surname Zhi