Free Bazi calculator
with an English reading
Explore your Four Pillars, Day Master and Ten Gods from your birth date and time. Get a personal explanation of the patterns in your chart, with clear calculation details.
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From eight characters to a useful reading
Bazi, also called the Four Pillars of Destiny, is a Chinese cultural system for reflecting on patterns through the birth calendar. Here you can compare a chart with your experience, without treating it as a fixed verdict about your life.
Your result includes the four pillars, a Day Master description, weighted element and Ten Gods distributions, and personal themes based on the actual proportions and ties in your chart. The general Ten Gods handbook stays collapsed so it does not overwhelm your own reading.
Looking for a starting point? Read how to read a Bazi chart or the Ten Gods guide.
How this calculator works
Enter the date and clock time recorded at your birthplace, then select the UTC offset in effect there on that date. Include daylight saving time in the offset if it applied. We do not automatically look up historical time zones, and we do not adjust your time to local apparent solar time.
Year and month pillars use solar-term boundaries, rather than changing at Lunar New Year or on the first day of a calendar month. This version changes the Bazi day at 23:00 on the supplied local clock. The time selector offers half-hour steps; the chosen clock time is treated as an exact instant, not as a thirty-minute uncertainty range. If your record is more precise, near a boundary, or uncertain, the available input may not reproduce it exactly. Check the calculation details before interpreting the result.
Common questions
Is Bazi the same as a Chinese zodiac animal?
No. An animal usually describes only a year branch. Bazi uses the year, month, day and hour, each with a stem and a branch, giving eight characters in total.
Can I use the calculator without knowing my birth time?
This version requires a time. Do not enter a made-up time and treat the hour pillar as certain. Find a record first, or treat any comparison of possible times as an exploration of uncertainty.
Are the percentages predictions or personality scores?
No. They summarize the weighting rules used by this calculator. They are not probabilities of future events, medical assessments, or validated psychological measurements.
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