Four Pillars of Destiny

The Four Pillars of Destiny, as known as "Ba-Zi", which means "eight characters" or "eight words" in Chinese, is a Chinese astrological concept that a person's destiny or fate can be divined by the two sexagenary cycle characters assigned to their birth year, month, day, and hour. This type of cosmological astrology is also widely used in South Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

Term: Birth Chart
Chinese name
Chinese生辰八字
Hanyu Pinyinshēngchén bāzì
Cantonese Yalesāangsàhn baatjih
Literal meaningBirth Time Eight Characters
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetSinh thần Bát tự
Chữ Hán生辰八字
Term: Four Pillars
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese四柱命理學
Simplified Chinese四柱命理学
Hanyu Pinyinsì zhù mìnglǐ xué
Cantonese Yalesei chyúh mehngléih hohk
Literal meaning"Four Pillars of Life" Studies
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese子平命理
Hanyu Pinyinzipíng mìnglǐ
Cantonese Yalejípìhng mehngléih
Literal meaningMethod Divination
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetTứ trụ mệnh lý
Chữ Hán四柱命理
Korean name
Hangul사주
Hanja四柱
Literal meaningFour Pillars Eight Characters
Japanese name
Kanji四柱推命
Hiraganaしちゅうすいめい
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