BaZi Chart Analysis
Chow Yun-fat — BaZi Chart Analysis
Born into poverty on Hong Kong’s Lamma Island, Chow Yun-fat rose through TVB dramas to become an icon of Hong Kong cinema, then crossed over with international hits like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Known for warmth and humility off‑screen, he famously pledged to donate his entire fortune to charity.
The chart, as computed
Every pillar below is computed by this site's engine from the birth date on file, using the solar terms rather than the Gregorian month — so the Month pillar changes at the 節 boundary, not on the 1st. Nothing in this reading was written before the chart was computed.
| Pillar | 干支 | Romanised | Ten God |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 乙未 | Yi Wei | Qi Sha |
| Month | 辛巳 | Xin Si | Shi Shen |
| Day | 己卯 | Ji Mao | Day Master |
Day Master: 己 (Ji, yin Earth). The engine reads this chart's day master as somewhat strong, in a 正印格 (Zheng Yin) structure — a chart organised around support, learning and backing.
No birth hour is on record for Chow Yun-fat. The hour pillar is therefore omitted rather than guessed, and nothing in this reading depends on it — no hour-branch relation, no luck-cycle direction, and no claim that would need the fourth pillar to stand up. Three pillars is a smaller chart, not a less accurate one.
What the ten gods put where
- Year stem — 七杀 (Qi Sha): pressure — authority experienced as force.
- Month stem — 食神 (Shi Shen): the output — expression, craft, ease of production.
A Ten God is a relation, not a trait. 正官 is not a kind of person — it is what a particular stem is to this day master, which means the same 干支 carries a different god in someone else's chart. General descriptions of Ji types are therefore weaker than the table above, which is specific to this one.
The branch relations the engine found
- 三合半合 · a half-trine — 卯 (Mao) / 未 (Wei), in the day and year branches, resolving to Wood. Two of the three branches of a trine frame, so the pull toward that element is real but partial.
- 拱会 · an embraced assembly — 巳 (Si) / 未 (Wei), in the month and year branches, resolving to Fire. Two branches implying a seasonal block they do not literally complete.
Reading it
A somewhat strong Ji Earth day master in a Zheng Yin structure, with Qi Sha on the year and Shi Shen on the month. Two constructive relations underneath — a Mao–Wei half-trine to Wood and an embraced Si–Wei Fire assembly — and no clash or harm anywhere. A strong day master with orthodox support and only constructive branch relations is among the most stable configurations this corpus holds; the tradition reads it as durability rather than intensity.
What this page does not claim
Two limits, stated rather than implied. First, this describes a chart, not a person: no claim is made that the configuration produced any event in the public record. Second, the reading was written from the chart forward, never from the biography backward — fitting a chart to a known life is the failure mode this genre is most prone to. Unknown birth hours are left unknown.
This is not a substitute for medical, financial or legal advice.
Work out your own chart
The same engine that computed the pillars above will compute yours: enter a birth date and time in the free BaZi chart calculator. If you want the terminology first, the BaZi glossary defines the Ten Gods, the branch relations and the pillar positions used on this page. More figures are in the celebrity chart index.
Birth data as held on file: 1955-05-18, hour unknown. The birth-data source is cited on the Chinese edition of this page.