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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

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Used in vocabulary (11 in total)

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

Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)

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