Feng shui five elements for a stock or coin

How it works

• The element comes from what the name means, or from the zodiac animal, or from the number the name adds to — whichever applies first. The reading tells you which one it used.
• Chinese characters are counted by strokes (修 9 + 仙 5 = 14), Latin letters by their place in the alphabet (A=1 to Z=26), digits at face value. Strokes are the original form of this method; the letter version is our adaptation.
• The trigram comes from that same number divided by eight, so two names sharing an element still read differently.
• A year is read in two layers: the stem, which rules it, and the branch, which says whether the name has a root in it. They are shown separately and never combined into a score.
• Above the year sits the era: the nine periods run twenty years each, and we are in period 9 (離 Li, Fire, 2024–2043). Years cycle every sixty; periods do not, which is why the same name stands differently now than it did before 2024.

Stroke counts are the strokes in the character as written, not Kangxi strokes. The two differ for simplified characters; schools split on which to use, and this site uses the character as written.

Which school each page on this site runs, and where we depart from tradition, is set out on the method page.

What this does not do

No prices, no timing, no ranking one name above another.

The rest of the site

Everything below is free and needs no account.

• Annual flying star chart — where the nine stars land in a building this year, and which sector to leave undisturbed.
• Chinese calendar — the new year and Li Chun boundary for any year from 1900 to 2100.
• Tai Sui directions — the directions not to break ground in this year.
• Kua number calculator — the same five elements applied to a person instead of a name.
• Bedroom layout and desk direction — where the method is actually used for something.