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Title: Earthly Branches Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:earthly-branches URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthly_Branches Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT The Earthly Branches are a system of twelve ordered symbols used throughout East Asia. They are indigenous to China, and are themselves Chinese characters, corresponding to words with no concrete meaning other than the associated branch's ordinal position in the list.