Chinese Name Analysis: Does Your Name Suit Your Chart?

The Chinese Name Analysis is a personalized PDF of about twelve pages for an adult weighing a rename (改名 gǎi míng). Master Wei Lin computes your full Four Pillars and Day Master strength, reads the favourable element (用神 yòng shén) and its supporting element (喜神 xǐ shén), then grades your current given name character by character against that balance. It closes with replacement names in three element groups, same-pinyin recompositions that keep your documents unchanged, and your matched power stone.

Yes, the birth time is required. An honest favourable element (用神) needs the full Four Pillars, and the Hour Pillar is one of the four. When you add a birth city, the reading also applies the True Solar Time (真太陽時) correction, so the Hour Branch follows where the sun actually sat rather than the political clock.

Characters outside our reviewed set are disclosed, never guessed. The per-character grading and the 五格 stroke grids draw on the 368 given-name characters our in-house reviewer panel has graded, and the grids additionally need your surname's strokes from our table of 162 common surnames; a character or surname outside those sets has no strokes on file, so the report says so plainly and omits the grids rather than approximating them. The verdict covers what can be read honestly, and you can reply to the delivery email with the exact characters for a follow-up confirmation.

Same-pinyin swaps change the Chinese characters of a given name while keeping the exact romanization on your passport, ID card, and bank records. In the tradition the Wu Xing elements live in the characters, not the letters, so the sound the world knows you by, and your paperwork, stay untouched while the new characters carry the favourable element. Where a syllable has no favourable character in the reviewed set, the report says so instead of stretching a character to fit.

No. The Chinese Name Analysis is pattern recognition, not fortune-telling: it reports which elements your name carries relative to your own chart, with a calm band verdict (suits the chart, a mixed reading, leans against the chart, or a partial reading when data is incomplete). A name has never sealed a life, and the report never predicts events. This is a pattern, not a verdict.

If your current name already suits your chart, the Chinese Name Analysis says so and recommends keeping it. When every readable character carries the favourable or supporting element, the verdict band reads as suits the chart, and the shortlist becomes a curiosity rather than a correction. The analysis is an audit, not a sales pitch for a rename; the outcome is decided by your chart and your characters, not by the report.

起名 (qǐ míng) means naming, choosing a first name for a newborn, and 改名 (gǎi míng) means renaming, changing the name an adult already carries. The Chinese Name Analysis is the 改名 reading: it audits your existing name against your own Four Pillars before any change is suggested. Families naming a baby are better served by the Chinese Name Report, which builds a newborn's shortlist from the child's chart.

The Three Talents and Five Grids (三才五格 sān cái wǔ gé) are a stroke-count method from the Kumazaki 1918 school: five grids are computed from the strokes of the surname and given name, each grid is read against the 81-number table (八十一靈動數), and the heaven, self, and earth grids together form the Three Talents sequence. In the Chinese Name Analysis this layer is a secondary filter under the chart's favourable element, never the lead, and schools differ on its weight.

Whether to change your Chinese name is a decision the tradition leaves entirely with you; the analysis only reports the pattern. In the classical reading a name that feeds your favourable element is a tailwind and one that withholds it is a headwind, so the report grades the name you carry, prints the working, and stops there. A verdict that leans against the chart is an argument for adjustment, not an instruction, and the same-pinyin path means even a change can leave your documents untouched.

The classical sources do not brand a Chinese name lucky or unlucky on its own; a name is read relative to the chart it serves. The same characters that withhold one chart's favourable element can feed another's, so the Chinese Name Analysis grades your name against your own Four Pillars and reports a calm band verdict rather than a fortune. In Wu Xing terms the question is fit, not luck.

A Chinese name's meaning and element are read character by character, not from the name as a block: each character carries its own Wu Xing element alongside its sense. In the reviewed set behind the Chinese Name Analysis every character is tagged with its element, pinyin, and meaning, so the report tables your name's characters with all three, then weighs them against the one element your chart most needs.

Legal name change is a civil-registry matter that varies by country, and the Chinese Name Analysis provides no legal service. The report is built so the paperwork question often never arises: the same-pinyin recompositions change the characters while keeping the exact romanization on your passport and ID card, and a new character name used socially, in signatures and correspondence, needs no registry at all.

Order at $68 with your surname, your given name in pinyin (plus the characters if you know them), your sex, your birth date, and your birth time, then check out through secure Stripe. The report is computed to your exact chart and delivered by email as a PDF of about twelve pages, backed by a 7-day guarantee: a rework or a full refund if it is not computed correctly to your chart.