Read the pattern in your birth moment.
Create your free Chinese birth chart with BaZi, the Four Pillars tradition. Discover your Day Master, elemental nature and current life cycles in clear English.
- Solar-term accurate: the year starts at Li Chun, months follow the 24 solar terms
- Time zones and daylight saving time handled for you
- Day Master, five elements, ten gods and 10-year luck cycles
- A personal plain-English reading of your chart
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See the four pillars first, then explore the Day Master, five-element balance and timing in plain English.
Build my chartWhat does a BaZi calculator tell you?
A BaZi calculator converts your birth moment into four pillars: Year, Month, Day and Hour. Each pillar contains a heavenly stem and an earthly branch. The Day stem is your Day Master; the complete chart shows the five-element balance, ten gods and traditional 10-year luck cycles. JadeBazi uses solar-term boundaries and the time zone of your birthplace, so the result is more precise than a Chinese zodiac sign alone.
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What your chart shows
Your Day Master
The element that stands for you — sun, candle, ocean, mountain and six more images, each with its own way of moving through the world.
Five-element balance
Which of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water dominate your chart, which are thin, and which traditionally bring you back into balance.
Luck cycles and years
The 10-year pillars your life moves through, and how 2026 and the 2027 Fire Goat year interact with your own chart.
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Find your Day Master, five-element balance and 10-year cycles from your birth moment.
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BaZi (八字, "eight characters") is the Chinese art of reading a birth moment. Each of your four pillars — year, month, day and hour — pairs a heavenly stem with an earthly branch, and every character belongs to one of five elements. The Day stem, your Day Master, represents you; the rest of the chart describes the forces around you: support, pressure, resources and outlets.
Unlike a sun-sign horoscope, BaZi works with the solar calendar, so the same person always gets the same chart, and it adds timing through 10-year luck pillars. Read the full guide to BaZi, or see what the 2027 Fire Goat year holds for each sign.
How to read the result
Start with your Day Master, then read the five-element balance, ten gods and 10-year luck cycles in that order. Our plain-English guide explains what each layer means and how to use it for reflection.
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Questions people ask
What does a BaZi calculator do?
It converts your birth date and time into four pairs of Chinese characters — the Year, Month, Day and Hour pillars. Each pair is a heavenly stem and an earthly branch carrying one of the five elements. Together they form your BaZi ("eight characters") chart, which traditional readers use to describe temperament, strengths and timing.
Do I need my exact birth time?
It helps. The birth time sets your Hour pillar, which traditionally relates to ideas, children and later life. Without it you still get three pillars, your Day Master, element balance and luck cycles — the chart is simply less complete.
Why is my Chinese zodiac animal different from what I expected?
In BaZi the year changes at Li Chun, the start of spring, around February 4 — not at Chinese New Year. If you were born in January or early February, your animal may belong to the previous year. The calculator uses the exact solar-term moment.
Which time zone should I choose?
Choose the time zone of the place where you were born. The calculator converts your birth moment to the solar calendar and removes daylight saving time, as traditional BaZi uses standard clock time.
What is my Day Master?
The Day Master is the heavenly stem of your Day pillar — for example Bing Fire or Ren Water. It represents you in the chart, and every other character is read by how it supports, drains or challenges that element.
Is BaZi the same as Korean Saju?
Yes. Saju (사주, "four pillars") is the Korean name for the same system, using the same stems, branches and calculations. Your chart here is identical to a Saju chart; only the terminology differs.
Is JadeBazi free?
Yes. Your Four Pillars chart, Day Master, five elements, luck cycles and a short written reading are free, with no sign-up. An optional Full BaZi Report — about 3,000 words on your chart plus a month-by-month look at 2027 — costs $14.99, paid once through PayPal. There are no subscriptions.
Is this a prediction of my future?
No. BaZi is a traditional framework for reflection. It describes tendencies and seasons of life, not fixed outcomes, and it is not a substitute for medical, legal or financial advice.
BaZi is a traditional Chinese system offered here for self-reflection and entertainment. Readings describe tendencies, not certainties, and are not medical, legal or financial advice.