Ox_(Chinese_constellation)

Ox (Chinese constellation)

Ox (Chinese constellation)

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For the sign of the Chinese zodiac, see Ox (zodiac).

The Ox mansion (牛宿, pinyin: Niú Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise. The primary asterism of this mansion is centered on the tail of the constellation known as Capricornus in Western astronomy.[1]

Niú Xiù map

Asterisms

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  1. [1]
    Soothill, William Edward; Hodous, Lewis (1977). A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms: With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN 978-81-208-0319-0.
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