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The solar term at 225° of solar longitude.
Also known as: Start of Winter solar term
The Chinese solar term beginning when the sun reaches 225° of ecliptic longitude, around 7 November.
Marks the beginning of winter in the Chinese seasonal reckoning, at 225 degrees of ecliptic longitude.
Contexts: History, Public information
Is one of the four season-opening terms whose names share a construction — the character for standing followed by the season — which makes the four immediately recognisable as a group in a way the other twenty are not.
Contexts: History, Public information
A written character pair set against a division of the year, marked on a Chinese calendar at the point the sun reaches 225° of ecliptic longitude.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.