Chinese Calendar and Culture

Four Pillars (BaZi) chart for a date and optional time: stems, branches, animals, five-element counts, day master.

Look up Chinese characters: pinyin readings, English meaning, stroke count, simplified and traditional forms.

Look up an I Ching hexagram by number or lines, or cast one from a question and date with changing lines.

Convert a Gregorian date to the Chinese lunar date (with leap month) or back, plus zodiac animal and year name.

Convert Chinese text to pinyin with tone marks or tone numbers; flags characters with several readings.

Convert Chinese text between simplified and traditional characters; reports ambiguous one-to-many characters.

Chinese solar term (jieqi) for a date with the next term's exact time, or all 24 terms of a year, in CST and UTC.