lunisolar
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Meaning
Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon.
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A detailed study of the Berlin example, which is the only fully preserved one, showed that the symbols probably represent a lunisolar calendar.
Additionally, the synodic month does not fit easily into the year, which makes accurate, rule-based lunisolar calendars complicated.
Kojiki puts this emperor's birth year at 485; and his date of death is said to have been April 9, 527. Japanese dates correspond to the traditional lunisolar calendar used in Japan until 1873.
However, one day per year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, magpies make a bridge so that Niu Lang and Zhi Nü can be together again for a brief encounter.
In some lunisolar calendars, such as the Chinese calendar, the first day of a month is the day when an astronomical new moon occurs in a particular time zone.
Lunisolar calendars The solar year does not have a whole number of lunar months (it is about 12.37 lunations ), so a lunisolar calendar must have a variable number of months in a year.