Chinese Birth Chart (BaZi) Calculator
One birthday in — your zodiac sign and your full four-pillar chart out. Everything is calculated in your browser; your birthday never leaves this page.
Your birth details
Layer 0 — your zodiac
Zodiac years change at Lichun (立春, Beginning of Spring) — the same boundary the BaZi engine uses, so the two never disagree.
Your zodiac is just 1 of 8 characters. Here are the other seven.
Layer 1 — the full chart
The four pillars
| Pillar | Heavenly stem | Earthly branch | GanZhi | Ten God |
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Hour pillar unavailable — birth hour unknown, chart shown in three-pillar mode.
Five elements
Day master
Life cycles (Da Yun, 大运)
Your year ahead
Your day master meets this year’s stem in a classical pattern. Each area below opens up in the deep report.
Love 感情
Wealth 财富
Fortune 运势
Best value — all 7 sections in one report
Your deep report
Your year — month by month · click a month to expand
What to watch
Key months
Everything — $59.99
Seven sections in one report: the three areas above, plus People & relationships, Day-master strength, Favorable elements and the Da Yun decade year by year.
- Love, Wealth and Fortune — the three areas above ($19.99 each)
- People & relationships (人际) — benefactors, competitors and backing across your palaces
- Day-master strength (日主强弱) — the balance of your chart in numbers
- Favorable elements (喜用神) — what supports you and what presses on you
- Da Yun decade (大运) — every year of your current decade, turning years marked
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What is my Chinese zodiac?
Your Chinese zodiac sign is the animal of your birth year’s earthly branch — one of twelve: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. In the classical system the year does not begin at January 1st or even at Chinese New Year: the zodiac year changes at Lichun, the Beginning of Spring, usually on February 4th.
The zodiac sign is only one character of your full chart. A BaZi (八字, “eight characters”) chart records the heavenly stem and earthly branch of your birth year, month, day and hour — eight characters in total. The zodiac is the animal of the year branch, one of those eight.
That is why this page asks for your birth date only once: the zodiac and the full chart come from the same input, and both are calculated here in your browser with the same deterministic engine.