Traditional frameworks.
Thoughtfully interpreted.

The birth moment and its conventions

Input dates use the Gregorian calendar. The year pillar changes at Li Chun, and month pillars follow solar terms rather than Gregorian month boundaries. Birthplace and an IANA timezone are used to resolve the historical time offset.

The form offers local civil time or an approximate apparent-solar correction, with an explicit 00:00 or 23:00 day rollover. Repeated or nonexistent daylight-saving times are rejected instead of being silently resolved.

Seasonal context, rooting, support, hidden stems, and interactions matter to an interpretation. Visible element counts alone do not establish Day Master strength. Traditional gender-dependent luck-cycle calculations can be omitted.

AI-generated pillars are not independently astronomically verified. When a pillar remains unresolved, it is withheld from the final chart and relevant interpretations stay provisional.

A Chinese name with a personal connection.

English-name matching uses Mandarin as its pronunciation reference. Choose sound, meaning, or a balance of both, and optionally explain your own pronunciation. A natural Chinese name may preserve only part of the sound. Every full suggestion explains its resemblance and tradeoffs without pretending that a similarity percentage proves suitability.

Optional birth details enable independent BaZi calculation and seasonal element reasoning. Shio 生肖 uses your selected Lunar New Year or Li Chun boundary; the BaZi year always uses Li Chun. The two animals may differ near the year boundary. Personalized chart connections are withheld when calculations remain unresolved. Naming symbolism is school-dependent and cannot alter the natal chart or guarantee fortune.

The name study uses exact Chinese character forms, a stated Kangxi stroke convention, and 五格剖象 arithmetic as a folk interpretive framework. Traditional and simplified forms are not silently converted.

You can provide independently verified stroke counts. Otherwise, inferred counts are still subject to dictionary verification. The site checks that grid arithmetic follows the returned counts; it does not treat arithmetic validation as dictionary verification.

Meanings, pronunciation, homophones, family preferences, readability, and practical use are considered alongside the numerical convention. Suggestions retain your surname and character preferences. No name is presented as a guarantee of fortune or registration availability, and a name alone does not establish useful BaZi elements.

A focused question, at a stated moment

The implemented convention is 时家转盘奇门·拆补法, using local civil time, the selected day rollover, solar terms at the actual instant, and 天禽寄坤二宫. It is not combined with 飞盘, 阴盘, or 置闰 methods.

A report considers the yin/yang dun, ju, four pillars, chief star and door, xun and void branches, and the nine palace placements. The display uses a south-up Lo Shu layout: 4–9–2 at the top, 3–5–7 in the middle, and 8–1–6 at the bottom.

Questions should concern a situation and choices you can act on. Symbolic indications are not evidence of another person’s private thoughts, guaranteed success, or a safe direction for travel. Future chart moments are allowed, but each moment needs its own verified calculation.

Calculate the moment before interpreting it

The landing-page introduction starts with a birth date only. Without a time or place, it checks the possible birth window across UTC−12 to UTC+14. A known place narrows that window to the local calendar day; complete details resolve a single instant. Boundary alternatives remain visible, and Moon/rising signs are withheld until time and place are supplied. The explanations use authored traditional symbolism while live AI is disconnected. With complete details, the free Four Pillars calculation uses solar longitude for year/month, the local chart date for the day cycle, and the selected day stem for the hour stem. Civil or approximate apparent-solar time and midnight or 23:00 rollover are explicit. Visible-element counts are unweighted and are not useful-element advice.

The free calculators use recorded civil birth time, an IANA region timezone, and confirmed coordinates. Temporal resolves historical clock changes. Times that never occurred are rejected; repeated hours require an explicit earlier/later choice. Inputs are not saved to reading history and no AI provider is called.

Shio is displayed under two explicit conventions: Lunar New Year at midnight in China Standard Time (fixed UTC+08:00), and Li Chun at the Sun’s 315° ecliptic-longitude crossing. Calendar conversion uses lunar-javascript; the solar crossing uses Astronomy Engine. The year-cycle display is not a complete Four Pillars chart.

Western signs use the tropical zodiac and true ecliptic coordinates of date. Sun and Moon positions are geocentric. The rising point is the eastern intersection of the true ecliptic and the geometric local horizon, without atmospheric refraction or a house system. Rising is withheld very near the geographic poles. This is not a sidereal or constellation-sign calculator.

Longitude and an approximate equation of time provide separate mean and apparent solar-clock comparisons. They do not change the physical birth instant or add another correction to Western positions. Cusp results, uncertain birth records, polar locations, and historical timezone data need care.

A useful reference states its rules

The free BaZi chart includes branch hidden stems and Ten Gods calculated relative to its selected Day Master. Optional ten-year luck pillars use the selected traditional male/female basis and year-stem polarity for direction. Starting age is the actual UTC interval to the next or previous jie solar term, using three days per year. Ages are approximate chronological years; no strength or fortune score is inferred.

Kua uses the astronomical Li Chun year. Reduce all four year digits to 1–9, then reduce 11 minus that number for the male formula or 4 plus it for the female formula. Central 5 maps to 2 or 8 respectively. Both formulas can be compared. If a birth window crosses Li Chun, both years remain visible.

Tong Shu uses a selected China Standard Time calendar date with midnight rollover. Its year/month labels follow the library’s day-based solar-term convention; Yi and Ji use lunar-javascript 1.7.7 sect 1. It is a general daily almanac, not a location-corrected event chart or personalized auspicious-date service. Chinese labels are retained with available English glosses. Almanac editions can disagree.

Calendar data and hidden stems use lunar-javascript. Solar-term instants use Astronomy Engine. Technical terms and traditional direction labels do not establish real-world outcomes.