Hey,
I got a question about 末。
Jisho tells me, that it is one of the eight Zodiac Sings, but when I google it Chinese Zodiac Sings, I only find other kanjis. Can someone tell me what it means?
You’ve confused the kanji. The zodiac sign for goat/sheep is 未 not 末.
Edit: Fixed thanks to Belthazar.
It’s the eighth of twelve.
Ram.
Or goat.
Yeah don’t know why I typed lamb. Guess I was thinking of baby sheep.
Because Jesus is the lamb who was slain?
Good a guess as any.
To re-address this question, in case we misunderstood the nature of it, the twelve kanji that Jisho calls the signs of the zodiac are actually the Chinese concept of the Earthly Branches. Since there’s twelve of them, they also correlate to the signs of the zodiac, but the zodiac signs also have kanji that actually relate to the specific animal in question - for example, ram/goat is 羊. But since it’s the eighth sign of the zodiac, it also corresponds to the eighth earthly branch, and so 未 is used to represent the sheep as a zodiac sign in official Japanese usage.
Actually Jesus is called イエス Iesu in Japanese, so the pun could be better by writing:
MOSHI MOSHI
IESU DESU
Actually rhymes.
Unapologetic revival.
I love a good agnus dei reference.
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