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For a Jia (甲, Yang Wood) Day Master, another Jia is Friend. It classifies a relation; it does not prove friendship or prescribe a social role.
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Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源 ↗Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap ↗
Name, translation and provenance
Bǐjiān 比肩, literally ‘shoulder alongside/parallel shoulder’.
‘Friend’ is an English teaching label; the literal Chinese points to side-by-side comparison. A historical naming origin is not asserted.
The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term.
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Peers and shared ground is an original Atlas teaching prompt for exploring the relationship name. It is not a measured personal characteristic.
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Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源 ↗Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap ↗
Word origin · etymology
Bǐjiān 比肩, literally ‘shoulder alongside/parallel shoulder’.
‘Friend’ is an English teaching label; the literal Chinese points to side-by-side comparison. A historical naming origin is not asserted.
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Relational classification
For a Jia (甲, Yang Wood) Day Master, another Jia is Friend. It classifies a relation; it does not prove friendship or prescribe a social role.
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