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Auspicious - Favourable or promising.
Calligraphy - The practice of decorative handwriting.
Zodiac - The term derives from a Greek word for a sculpture of an animal.
Astrologer - Somebody who studies the movements of the moon, sun and stars in the belief that this has influence on people's lives.
Mandarin - As well as the name for China’s largest language group, Mandarin was also a name given to a type of bureaucrat in Imperial China.
Idioms - A phrase that has a meaning other than the literal meaning of the words.
Symbolic - A sign or representation of something else.