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子ね

Meanings

Noun

1. the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac)

2. hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am)

3. north

4. eleventh month of the lunar calendar

Kanji used

child

Pitch accent

ね

Used in vocabulary (15 in total)

甲きのえ子ね

Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

羽は子ね突つき

hanetsuki (Japanese badminton); battledore and shuttlecock

子ねの日ひ

day of the Rat (esp. the first day of the Rat in the New Year); (arch.) collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots; (arch.) pine shoot pulled out by the roots