Windu

I am trying to learn Indonesian by using Duolingo. Not very long ago I learned a new word “windu”.

Windu means eight years. This got me curious. In Chinese we have “甲子" (wood rat) which means 60 years. However, that’s because of ganzhi (干支,stems-and-branches). How come there are this “windu”? Can anybody solve this mystery?

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葉綠舒 Susan Yeh

黑手老師、科普作者、資深書蟲 Educator, popular science writer and bookworm.