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“Night-watch” and “night-watch point” are technical terms from ancient Chinese timekeeping. The expression “night-watch” is used for the Korean word gyeong (更, geng in Chinese), about a 2-h period in the nighttime. There were five gyeong each night, corresponding with the 2-h blocks or “double-hours” from around 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., and each gyeong was divided into five jeom (點, dian in Chinese), an expression translated as (night-watch) “point.”
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Moon‐Hyon, N. (2008). Time in Korea. In: Selin, H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4425-0_9337
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