southwest
Archaic term for the southwest direction, derived from the combination of the zodiac signs 未 (sheep) and 申 (monkey). Used in classical contexts, such as old calendars, fortune-telling, or historical texts.
Some old maps indicate the direction as 未申.
Archaic directional term combining the zodiac signs 未 (sheep, south-southwest) and 申 (monkey, west-southwest).
Single-character variant using the Eight Trigrams (八卦) character for southwest; rare and archaic.
Compound of 未 (ひつじ, the Sheep, associated with south-southwest) and 申 (さる, the Monkey, associated with west-southwest), together indicating the southwest direction. The reading ひつじさる is a straightforward combination of the two zodiac animal names.