生辰八字

Chinese

		birthday; date of one's birth	the character 八
trad. (生辰八字)		生辰	八字
simp. #(生辰八字)		生辰	八字

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēngchén bāzì

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥ ㄔㄣˊ ㄅㄚ ㄗˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saang¹ san⁴ baat³ zi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēngchén bāzì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ ㄔㄣˊ ㄅㄚ ㄗˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shengchén bazìh
    • Wade–Giles: shêng¹-chʻên² pa¹-tzŭ⁴
    • Yale: shēng-chén bā-dz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shengchern batzyh
    • Palladius: шэнчэнь бацзы (šɛnčɛnʹ baczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰən³⁵ pä⁵⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saang¹ san⁴ baat³ zi⁶
    • Yale: sāang sàhn baat jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saang¹ san⁴ baat⁸ dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sang¹ sen⁴ bad³ ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːŋ⁵⁵ sɐn²¹ paːt̚³ t͡siː²²/

Noun

生辰八字

1. eight characters that indicate the year, month, date and double-hour of one's birth, used in fortune-telling

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 八字 (“eight characters that indicate the year, month, date and double-hour of one's birth”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		八字
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	生辰八字
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	八字
	Xi'an	八字
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	八字
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	八字
	Wuhan	八字
Cantonese	Guangzhou	時辰八字
	Hong Kong	八字, 時辰八字, 生辰八字
	Taishan	八字
Gan	Nanchang	八字
	Pingxiang	八字
Hakka	Yudu	八字
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	八字
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	八字
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	八字
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	八字
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	八字
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	八字
Huizhou	Jixi	八字, 時辰八字
Jin	Taiyuan	八字
Southern Min	Xiamen	八字
	Quanzhou	八字
	Zhangzhou	八字
	Tainan	八字, 生時日月
Wu	Shanghai	時辰八字
	Shanghai (Chongming)	八字
	Suzhou	八字
	Danyang	八字
	Hangzhou	時辰八字
	Wenzhou	八字
	Jinhua	八字
Xiang	Loudi	八字