BaZi · Glossary
On the Year Pillar in BaZi
Deep Oracle Editorial Team · 2026-08-11 · 1 min read
On the Year Pillar is a BaZi pillar-position expression term. It reads what appears on the year pillar, often early or distant background.
Reading Role
Use it to place the term in the correct pillar, stem, branch, hidden-stem, or timing layer before drawing interpretation.
Example
In a chart fragment, this term changes what gets read first: location, support, season, or direction of element flow. That keeps the reading from collapsing into a single label.
Limit
Do not turn it into final personality judgment.
Related Terms
In the classical texts
Passages in the classical texts held on this site where the term occurs, transcribed from the named edition. The texts do not necessarily use the term the way it is used today.
楠曰：年时上官星格者，盖虚官用之多贵，喜财以生之或年上日支下亦用，但月上正官，世无可用之理，其理载下文人命见验时上官星类。
取年上干支官为岁徳喜忌与月令正官同论遇此必生宦族或䕃袭祖父之职若月居财官分野运向财官旺地日主徤旺贵无疑矣凡年干遇官福气最重发达必早如癸酉庚申丙子丙申年上官星柱中㑹官局归禄日下丙克申酉
以年为夫，以日为妇，如日在孤绝隔角，却于年上有吉神之气，宜阳就阴为吉。
如年己月甲,年上之财,被月合去,而日主之甲乙无分;年甲月己,月上之财,被年合去,而日主之甲乙不与是也。
此造旺财当令，加以年上食神生助，日逢时禄，不为无根，所以身出富家。
或庚辛年上，癸透时干，定许科甲，无癸者常人。
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