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The solar term at 330° of solar longitude.
Also known as: Rain Water solar term
The Chinese solar term beginning when the sun reaches 330° of ecliptic longitude, around 19 February.
Marks the point at which precipitation is expected to fall as rain rather than snow, at 330 degrees of ecliptic longitude.
Contexts: History, Public information
Names a change of phase rather than a quantity: the term does not say more rain, it says the frozen form gives way to the liquid one, which in the Yellow River basin the calendar was built for is the event that matters.
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 330° of ecliptic longitude.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.