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Sun Yingsha’s BaZi chart 孙颖莎

Table tennis player · Olympic team champion, 2020 and 2024 · born 4 November 2000, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China · date source: Wikipedia

Western zodiac sign: Scorpio.

No birth time has been published. The date fixes three of the four pillars; the fourth is one of twelve. Below, everything the date settles is computed, and everything that turns on the hour is cast all twelve ways — without picking one on anyone’s behalf.

A smiling man in red before a rising sun

In short

Sun Yingsha’s day master is Yang Fire: the Sun.

Open and upright, with a warmth that reaches a long way. The day master comes from the day of birth alone; about one person in ten shares it.

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Quick answers

What is Sun Yingsha’s day master?
Yang Fire, the Sun: born on a Fire Tiger day (Bing Yin, 丙寅).
What is Sun Yingsha’s zodiac sign?
The Dragon: born in a Metal Dragon year (Geng Chen, 庚辰), counted from the Start of Spring.
What is Sun Yingsha’s bone weight?
3.4 liang to 4.4 liang, depending on the hour, which is not public. How it is worked out ›
Is Sun Yingsha’s birth time known?
No published time, so the hour pillar is cast all twelve ways below.

Compare your chart with Sun Yingsha’s

Birth dates only: day masters, day pillars and signs.

The three pillars the date fixes

Year

Indirect Wealth

庚 Yang Metal

辰 Dragon

Month

Friend

丙 Yang Fire

戌 Dog

Day

Day Master

丙 Yang Fire

寅 Tiger

Hour

 

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one of twelve — see below

What the labels mean

Each pillar is two characters: a stem on top (an element, yin or yang) and a branch below (one of the twelve zodiac animals). The day stem is the day master — the person. The label above each other stem is its ten god (Shi Shen, 十神): what that element is to the day master.

Each animal also hides stems of its own, strongest first: the Dragon hides Yang Earth (戊, Eating God), Yin Wood (乙, Direct Resource), Yin Water (癸, Direct Officer); the Dog hides Yang Earth (戊, Eating God), Yin Metal (辛, Direct Wealth), Yin Fire (丁, Rob Wealth); the Tiger hides Yang Wood (甲, Indirect Resource), Yang Fire (丙, Friend), Yang Earth (戊, Eating God).

Indirect Wealth (Pian Cai, 偏财)
What you control, same polarity. Wealth that comes sideways rather than by salary — the uneven kind.
Eating God (Shi Shen, 食神)
What you produce, same polarity. Output that comes easily: making, feeding, expressing, without strain.
Direct Resource (Zheng Yin, 正印)
What produces you, opposite polarity. Straightforward support: what teaches, shelters and backs you.
Direct Officer (Zheng Guan, 正官)
What controls you, opposite polarity. Authority in its orderly form: office, rule, the structure you fit into.
Friend (Bi Jian, 比肩)
Same element, same polarity as you. A peer: someone standing where you stand, competing for the same thing and equally able to share the load.
Direct Wealth (Zheng Cai, 正财)
What you control, opposite polarity. Wealth held steadily — earned, kept, accounted for.
Rob Wealth (Jie Cai, 劫财)
Same element, opposite polarity. A peer who takes rather than shares — the tradition reads it as what draws on your resources through people close to you.
Indirect Resource (Pian Yin, 偏印)
What produces you, same polarity. Support of an indirect kind — the tradition treats it as nourishment that can also crowd out the Eating God (食神).

Day master

丙 The Sun Yang Fire (Bing)
What the classic Di Tian Sui (滴天髓) says of this stem, word for word

Yang Fire (丙) is fierce and violent, bullying frost and insulting snow. It can smelt Yang Metal (庚), yet meeting Yin Metal (辛) it turns timid. With Earth in numbers it becomes kind; with Water rampant it shows its constancy. In the country of tiger, horse and dog, let Yang Wood (甲) come and it is destroyed.

丙火猛烈,欺霜侮雪。能煅庚金,逢辛反怯。土众成慈。水猖显节,虎马犬乡,甲来成灭。

Born in a Dog month (Xu, 戌), when Earth rules the season. In that season Yang Fire is at rest (Xiu, 休): it produced the season and its work is done. (One of five seasonal states, Wang Xiang Xiu Qiu Si, 旺相休囚死, after the San Ming Tong Hui, 三命通會, book 2.)

Day pillar: Fire Tiger (Bing Yin, 丙寅)

The classic San Ming Tong Hui (三命通会) gives each of the sixty day pillars an image, its sound element (Na Yin, 纳音). For this one it is Fire in the Furnace (炉中火), and it says:

Furnace charcoal; likes winter, and Wood.

The original Chinese

为炉炭,喜冬及木

This is what the book says of every Bing Yin day, not of Sun Yingsha. The Bing Yin day pillar › (what the classic says at each birth hour, what the branch holds, and others born on one)

Elements in the six known characters

木 Wood × 1 火 Fire × 2 土 Earth × 2 金 Metal × 1 水 Water × 0

None of the six is Water. The hour pillar’s two characters may supply it or may not — that depends on the hour. Hidden stems are not counted here.

All twelve hours, cast one by one

Of the twelve hours, 1 read strong and 11 weak (strong: the Horse hours). Strength, and the useful element that follows from it, depend on the hour — the date alone cannot settle them.

Hour Solar time Hour pillar Its ten god Three tests Strength Favoured
Rat (子) 00–01 戊子Earth Rat Eating God (食神) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Wood, Fire
Ox (丑) 01–03 己丑Earth Ox Hurting Officer (伤官) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Wood, Fire
Tiger (寅) 03–05 庚寅Metal Tiger Indirect Wealth (偏财) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Wood, Fire
Rabbit (卯) 05–07 辛卯Metal Rabbit Direct Wealth (正财) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Wood, Fire
Dragon (辰) 07–09 壬辰Water Dragon Seven Killings (七杀) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Wood, Fire
Snake (巳) 09–11 癸巳Water Snake Direct Officer (正官) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Wood, Fire
Horse (午) 11–13 甲午Wood Horse Indirect Resource (偏印) out of season rooted backed strong Earth, Metal, Water
Goat (未) 13–15 乙未Wood Goat Direct Resource (正印) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Wood, Fire
Monkey (申) 15–17 丙申Fire Monkey Friend (比肩) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Wood, Fire
Rooster (酉) 17–19 丁酉Fire Rooster Rob Wealth (劫财) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Wood, Fire
Dog (戌) 19–21 戊戌Earth Dog Eating God (食神) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Wood, Fire
Pig (亥) 21–23 己亥Earth Pig Hurting Officer (伤官) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Wood, Fire

Each row is exactly what the full calculator would say for a birth in that hour. Strength comes from three tests: in season (De Ling, 得令) — born in the season of the day master’s own element; rooted (De Di, 得地) — the same element hidden in a branch; backed (De Shi, 得势) — as much support around it as drain. Two of three reads strong. The favoured elements come from support and restrain (Fu Yi, 扶抑): a strong day master wants draining, a weak one wants support. There are three other methods for the useful element — climate (Tiao Hou, 调候), bridging (Tong Guan, 通關) and disease and cure (Bing Yao, 病藥) — each from its own text; see the useful god page. Hours are solar time at the birthplace, so a clock time needs correcting first; and a birth after 23:00 falls in the late Rat hour, where the two schools disagree about whether the day has turned.

Sun Yingsha’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)

Lunar date: day 9 of the 10th month, Metal Dragon year (庚辰年十月初九). Its weights: year 1.2 liang, month 0.8 liang, day 0.8 liang — 2.8 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 3.4 liang to 4.4 liang.

Rat (子) 4.4 liang Ox (丑) 3.4 liang Tiger (寅) 3.5 liang Rabbit (卯) 3.8 liang Dragon (辰) 3.7 liang Snake (巳) 4.4 liang Horse (午) 3.8 liang Goat (未) 3.6 liang Monkey (申) 3.6 liang Rooster (酉) 3.7 liang Dog (戌) 3.4 liang Pig (亥) 3.4 liang

This date falls on a cell where one of the four published tables differs, which would move every total by 1.1 liang.

Bone weighing is a folk almanac sum over the calendar positions of the year, month, day and hour — not the elements, and not the chart above. How heavy is heavy? The tables and the spread ›

And yours?

You have your own birth time, so your chart needs no table of twelve — all four pillars, corrected to true solar time with the timezone actually in force where and when you were born.

About this page

This page computes; it does not interpret. The birth date is public and its source is linked; the birth time is not, so the hour pillar and everything that depends on it are set out all twelve ways.

Nothing here claims that anyone is who they are because of a chart, and nothing here forecasts years, health or lifespan for anyone living.

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