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<WL>闰(F閏) [rùn] intercalary; 闰年 | <WL>闰(F閏) [rùn] intercalary/leap; 闰月 intercalary month; 闰年 leap year; 闰日 leap day; add; extra | ||
The Shuōwén Seal form of 闰/閏() rùn ‘intercalary month’ combines 门/門 mén ‘double doors’, and 王() wáng ‘king/emperor’: every fifth year at the start of the new year the celestial emperor stood between the doors of the ancestral temple, performing the rite decreeing the creation of the new/extra month needed to fill the gap/interval in the cycle, to synchronize the earthly calendar with the heavens. | |||
“Intercalary (moon) — during the intercalary moon the 王 king sat in the 門 gate, not in the hall, says 《说文》 Shuōwén. Or was 壬 ... phonetic ...?” —Karlgren. | Note: In SW it is said that in E. Hàn times this rite introducing the intercalary month took place every fifth 歲 year (after Jupiter had completed 5/12 of its orbit), at which time the difference between a calendrical year of 360 days and a true year of ~366 days would amount to ~5x6=30 days, or one full month; in earlier times given a year of 354 or 355 days, the intercalary month was inserted every third year; in modern times using the western calendar of 365 days per year an intercalary/leap day (闰日) is inserted every fourth year, at the end of February (HDZ). | ||
“Intercalary (moon) — during the intercalary moon the 王 king sat in the 門 gate, not in the hall, says 《说文》 Shuōwén. Or was 壬 ... phonetic ...?” —Karlgren(AD). | |||
Note: In inscriptions from older times (殷周) the intercalary month was referred to as 十三月, and the character 闰/閏 had not yet been invented (HDZ). | |||
#rK.AD948 D.7.4286.1 B.057.1.06 E.0 | #rK.AD948 D.7.4286.1 B.057.1.06 E.0 | ||
# | #c门王 | ||
#y yeuhn- | #y yeuhn- | ||
</WL> | </WL> | ||
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