戌

戌 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹一 (IHM), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿵戊一(GHTJK) or ⿹戈⿰丿一(V))

• 㖅, 䢕, 珬, 䎉, 銊(𫓰), 䬄, 咸, 威, 烕, 嵗, 歲, 歳

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 411, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11535
• Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1398, character 1
• Unihan data for U+620C

Pictogram (象形) of an axe or halberd, almost identical to 戊 and similar to 戈.

Smith (2011) proposes that 戌 (OC *smid), graphically depicting an ax or halberd, is a nominal derivative of the verb 滅 (OC *med) "to annihilate" "by the multivalent prefix *s- (‘annihilate’ > ‘annihilator’ and thus ‘axe’)", and it was used to name the late, broad waxing crescent moon.

Association with the dog was possibly arbitrary, just as how 辰 was associated arbitarily with the dragon (see Ferlus, 2013).

戌

1. eleventh of twelve earthly branches (十二支)
2. Dog (狗) of Chinese zodiac

• (Chinese earthly branches) 地支 (dìzhī); 子 (zǐ), 丑 (chǒu), 寅 (yín), 卯 (mǎo), 辰 (chén), 巳 (sì), 午, 未 (wèi), 申 (shēn), 酉 (yǒu), 戌 (xū), 亥 (hài) ^{(Category: zh:Chinese earthly branches)}

戌

1. only used in 屈戌 (“metal fastening”)

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: しゅち (shuchi)
• Kan-on: しゅつ (shutsu)
• Kan’yō-on: じゅつ (jutsu)
• Kun: いぬ (inu, 戌)

From 犬 (inu, “dog”).

• (Tokyo) いぬ [ìnúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [inɯ̟]

• Homophones: 犬, 狗

戌(いぬ) • (Inu) 

1. the Dog, the eleventh of the twelve Earthly Branches

   Hypernyms: 十二支, 地支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

戌(いぬ) • (inu) 

1. the hour of the dog; a historical dual-hour equivalent to 7PM - 9PM
   • c. 935,: Tosa Nikki (page 3)

     それの年の十二月の二十日あまり一日の日の戌の刻に、門出す。

     I departed on the twenty and one day of the twelfth month of that year at the hour of the dog.

From Middle Chinese 戌 (swit).

戌(じゅつ) • (Jutsu) 

1. the Dog, the eleventh of the twelve Earthly Branches

   Hypernyms: 十二支, 地支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

• Hasegawa, Masaharu with Yūichirō Imanishi, Hiroshi Itō, Hiroshi Yoshioka (1989) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 24: Tosa Nikki, Kagerō Nikki, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, Sarashina Nikki, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

戌 (eum 술 (sul))

1. 11th terrestrial branch

戌: Hán Nôm readings: tuất

1. chữ Hán form of Tuất (“eleventh of the twelve earthly branches”)

   Hypernyms: 地支, 十二支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥