| 寅吃卯粮 | yín chī mǎo liáng | lit. eating away next year's food in advance; fig. to dip into the next month's check; live now, pay later | |
| 点卯 | diǎn mǎo | morning roll call | |
| 卯榫 | mǎo sǔn | mortise and tenon (slot and tab forming a carpenter's joint) | |
| 丁卯 | dīng mǎo | fourth year D4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1987 or 2047 | |
| 乙卯 | yǐ mǎo | fifty-second year B4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1975 or 2035 |
| 1 | And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. | |
| 2 | the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard; | |
| 3 | And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets. | |
| 4 | And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. | |
| 5 | Curtains fifteen cubits long are to be on one side of the entrance, with three posts and three bases |
