Free BaZi Reading & Chart Calculator
Enter your birth date, time and sex for a free Four Pillars chart in seconds: Day Master strength, chart structure, Five Elements, Ten Gods and luck cycles, each with the reasoning behind it.
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What is a BaZi calculator and chart generator?
Enter your birth date, time and birthplace region, then tap Get my free chart. Within seconds you'll see your Year, Month, Day and Hour Pillars with your Day Master, Five Elements, Ten Gods and luck cycles. The pillars follow the traditional solar-term and Zi-hour rules, so the same birth details always give the same chart; AI then explains it in plain language. If you were born outside China, choose your birthplace region first. If you know the birth city, you can also turn on true solar time. No account is needed for the basic chart. This is the official Ba-Zi.ai website.
What does this free BaZi chart generator include?
The free result includes your four pillars, Day Master strength, chart structure and favorable elements, Five Elements balance, Ten Gods, clashes and combinations, and readings for your current luck cycle, this year and this month, each with its basis. Sign up to read your full personality profile and try AI consultations that remember your chart at no cost. The decade-by-decade life chart is free too; the year-by-year 100-year Life K-Line and the Life Rhythm Book are paid. Strength labels follow traditional BaZi practice. Use them to understand yourself, and weigh real-life facts for big decisions.
BaZi Reading FAQ
Q: What is a BaZi generator?
A: It turns your birth date, time, place and sex into a Four Pillars chart, the eight characters a BaZi reading is built on. Ba-Zi.ai calculates the chart first, shows you the Day Master, Five Elements, Ten Gods and luck cycles, and then has AI explain them in plain language.
Q: Do I need an account to generate my chart?
A: No. The core chart and its basic readings are free without an account. Sign in for the AI reading of your chart (free, up to 3 a day), to save the profile and come back to the same reading, or to unlock the Life Rhythm Book. Chat about your chart is free for the first 3 questions per account, shared across BaZi, compatibility and Zi Wei.
Q: What does a Four Pillars BaZi chart show?
A: Four pillars (year, month, day and hour), each with a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. From these come your Day Master (the element that stands for you), your Five Elements balance, your Ten Gods and your luck cycles.
Q: How accurate is an AI BaZi reading?
A: You can check every pillar: solar terms set the month, Lichun sets the year and the day pillar changes at 23:00. Tools with other Zi-hour or true-solar-time settings can show different pillars. The reading explains those traditional symbols in plain language. Use it for reflection, not as medical, legal or financial advice.
Q: What if I don't know my exact birth hour?
A: Tap I don’t know the hour. You'll see everything the date already settles, such as your year and month pillars, and you can add the hour later for the full chart.
Q: Why do BaZi calculators sometimes show different pillars?
A: Differences usually come from four things: the birthplace time zone and daylight saving, a birthday right at a solar-term change, whether a birth after 23:00 counts as the next day, and whether true solar time is applied. Set these the same way and the pillars usually match. By default we use birthplace local time, change months at solar terms, and change days at the Zi hour.
Learn the basics
BaZi Basics
- How to Calculate a BaZi Chart by Hand: Year, Month, Day and Hour Pillars
- BaZi Useful God (Yong Shen): How to Tell a Strong Day Master from a Weak One
- True Solar Time in BaZi: Should You Correct Your Birth Hour? (DST and the 23:00 Hour Explained)
- BaZi vs Qimen Dunjia: What Is the Difference and Which Should You Use?
- Zi Hour BaZi: How to Read Charts for Births Near Midnight or Unknown Birth Times
- Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches: Complete BaZi Guide to Gan Zhi
- Zheng Guan BaZi Meaning: Direct Officer & Pei Yin Table
- DeepSeek BaZi Reading: Why It Fails (And What Works Better)
- Seven Killings in BaZi: Meaning, Traits & Eating God Pattern
- What Is BaZi? Your Four Pillars of Destiny Explained
- Ten Gods in BaZi: Meaning, Table & All 10 Gods Explained
- How to Read a BaZi Chart: A Practical Beginner's Guide