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Chinese calendar and Zodiac

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Difference between Chinese calendar and Zodiac

Chinese calendar vs. Zodiac

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. The zodiac is an area of the sky that extends approximately 8° north or south (as measured in celestial latitude) of the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year.

Similarities between Chinese calendar and Zodiac

Chinese calendar and Zodiac have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Antares, Chinese zodiac, Ecliptic, Gregorian calendar, Sexagesimal, Tropical year.

Antares

Antares, also designated Alpha Scorpii (α Scorpii, abbreviated Alpha Sco, α Sco), is on average the fifteenth-brightest star in the night sky, and the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius.

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Chinese zodiac

The Chinese zodiac is a classification scheme that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12-year cycle.

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Ecliptic

The ecliptic is the circular path on the celestial sphere that the Sun follows over the course of a year; it is the basis of the ecliptic coordinate system.

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Gregorian calendar

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

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Sexagesimal

Sexagesimal (base 60) is a numeral system with sixty as its base.

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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 Zodiac Comparison

Chinese calendar has 174 relations, while Zodiac has 190. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 1.65% = 6 / (174 + 190).

References

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