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Chinese calendar and Metonic cycle

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Difference between Chinese calendar and Metonic cycle

Chinese calendar vs. Metonic cycle

The traditional Chinese calendar (official Chinese name: Rural Calendar, alternately Former Calendar, Traditional Calendar, or Lunar Calendar) is a lunisolar calendar which reckons years, months and days according to astronomical phenomena. For astronomy and calendar studies, the Metonic cycle or Enneadecaeteris (from ἐννεακαιδεκαετηρίς, "nineteen years") is a period of very close to 19 years that is nearly a common multiple of the solar year and the synodic (lunar) month.

Similarities between Chinese calendar and Metonic cycle

Chinese calendar and Metonic cycle have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Gregorian calendar, Hebrew calendar, Intercalation (timekeeping), Lunisolar calendar, Mercury (planet), Tropical year.

Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used civil calendar in the world.

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Hebrew calendar

The Hebrew or Jewish calendar (Ha-Luah ha-Ivri) is a lunisolar calendar used today predominantly for Jewish religious observances.

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Intercalation (timekeeping)

Intercalation or embolism in timekeeping is the insertion of a leap day, week, or month into some calendar years to make the calendar follow the seasons or moon phases.

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Lunisolar calendar

A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures whose date indicates both the moon phase and the time of the solar year.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.

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Tropical year

A tropical year (also known as a solar year) is the time that the Sun takes to return to the same position in the cycle of seasons, as seen from Earth; for example, the time from vernal equinox to vernal equinox, or from summer solstice to summer solstice.

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Chinese calendar and Metonic cycle Comparison

Chinese calendar has 174 relations, while Metonic cycle has 44. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 2.75% = 6 / (174 + 44).

References

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