BaZi naming tradition · Five Phases · 20 reviewed references
Read the pattern. Explore the characters.
A transparent Five-Phase surface tally and Han character reference for a thoughtful naming conversation.
Enter the exact local birth moment and birthplace time zone. This guide calculates the Four Pillars on your device, collapses them to five visible counts, and lets you browse characters under one declared radical convention.
Birth date, time, and time zone stay in this browser session and are cleared after calculation. A saved result contains only five derived counts totaling 8—not the birth details, pillars, surname, proposed name, or selected filter.
One declared BaZi convention
The Year Pillar turns at Li Chun and month pillars at twelve jie solar terms. The guide counts four visible stems plus four branch main phases; it does not calculate chart strength or choose a favorable phase.
8 = 4 + 4
Profile: four visible stems plus four branch main phases produce exactly 8 counts. Hidden stems are not weighted, and no chart-strength or favorable-phase calculation is performed.
Civil time, stated plainly
The birthplace’s IANA time zone resolves the historical offset. The civil day changes at 00:00; Zi hour spans 23:00–00:59. No longitude-based true-solar-time correction is applied.
01 · Set the birth moment
When did the local clock mark the birth?
Use the Gregorian calendar, exact local clock time, and IANA time zone that applied at the birthplace. Calculation happens on this device.