How to divide the five elements attributes of Chinese characters?

When it comes to Feng Shui knowledge, it is definitely inseparable from the Five Elements. When it comes to Chinese characters, it is also inseparable from the Five Elements. I have compiled information on the classification of the Five Elements attributes of Chinese characters here for your reference. I hope you will Gain something during the reading process!

The classification of the five elements of Chinese characters

1. Look at the radicals of Chinese characters*** that is, determine the five elements of Chinese characters based on the glyphs***

Earth: earth, firmness, kun, tan, pei, zeng, etc. The five elements can be seen directly from the glyphs or radicals. In Chinese characters, characters with a grass head next to wood belong to wood; characters with gold or jade characters belong to gold; characters with fire and sun belong to fire; characters with earth and mountain belong to earth. This method mainly uses the basic elements of Chinese characters. Radicals are used to define the five elements of Chinese characters.

Disadvantages: According to this statement, what is the Five Elements without these radicals? Is there no Five Elements? For example, Dadu Tianmu has a long and straight square Xuantian'er. This method is too limited and is only suitable for certain people. Some highly radical words.

2. Look at the number of strokes of Chinese characters***, which is the five elements of mathematics. It is currently the most widely used and the longest-used method of defining the five elements***: the five elements of Chinese characters belong to fire, and Sancai: genius , talent, and earth talent, they are respectively the single digits of the numbers of heaven, personality, and earth. The three talents of heaven, earth, and people count ten numbers in mathematics. If the single digit is 0, calculate it as 10 and draw it mathematically. Divided into five elements. The relationship between the five elements is: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, which are adjacent to each other and restrain each other.

Based on the internal connection between mathematics and the five elements, the calculated configuration relationship is the configuration of the three talents.

1 and 2 are wood, 3 and 4 are fire, 5 and 6 are earth, 7 and 8 are gold, 9 and 10 are water

Disadvantages: In the past, it was based on the Kangxi Dictionary To divide the strokes, and then according to the number of strokes and the eight trigrams of the next day, we can get the five elements of the character. However, mainland China currently uses simplified characters. Therefore, it is no longer appropriate to convert the simplified characters into Kangxi characters and then check the Five Elements. Furthermore, the Chinese character strokes, mathematics, and five elements are just a blind count, ignoring the meaning of the Chinese characters themselves. If we continue like this, wood is 4 strokes, earth is 3 strokes, and according to this theory, wood and the five elements will become popular. The five elements of earth also become fire, making a joke out of referring to a deer as a horse. This method is mostly used by renaming software, and the result is a lot of confusion and jokes.

3. Divide according to pronunciation*** that is, the five elements of phonology***

The Chinese characters with five elements belonging to water

The five elements of phonology are divided according to the pronunciation of Chinese characters.

Disadvantages: Very few people use it. This is quite complicated, and many people in the industry are confused. In fact, the five elements of the pronunciation of a word are determined from the pronunciation of the five organs: throat, tongue, teeth, teeth and lips.

For example: the labial sound belongs to the earth of the five elements, pinyin: b, p, m, f, w

The tongue sound belongs to the fire of the five elements, the pinyin: d, t, n, l

The dental sound belongs to the five elements of wood, Pinyin: j, q, x, y

The dental sound belongs to the five elements of gold, Pinyin: z, c, s, zh, ch, sh, r

The guttural sound belongs to the water of the five elements, pinyin: g, k, h

Four: Look at the meaning of the Chinese character itself*** It is the meaning of the five elements, which is recognized to best reflect the original meaning of the Chinese character A method of defining the five elements***:

Advantages: This method is currently the most accurate and reasonable method to define the five elements of Chinese characters. In addition, when it comes to the five elements of Chinese character meanings, we need to pay attention to something: the five elements of Chinese characters have strong and weak meanings. For example, the main five elements of river, lake, sea, and ocean are all water. They are all water, and they are also strong and weak. Everyone should understand this. Don’t blindly replenish water after hearing that the eight characters are short of water. , it also depends on the size of the water, whether your fate is suitable, etc.

Finally, let’s talk about how to more reasonably define the five elements of a Chinese character?

First of all, we must understand the principle of seeking the roots of things, starting from the most fundamental of things. A closer analysis shows that most Chinese characters, especially commonly used characters for names, are composed of two or more radicals. This shows that a Chinese character with multiple radicals cannot be determined by one type of five elements. How does it ultimately come about? Determining the five elements of a character? The key is to base on the meaning of the character, because the pronunciation and shape of Chinese characters come first, and the five elements follow. Currently, basically no one uses the pronunciation and shape of a character to determine the five elements, because it is difficult to standardize. Therefore, the best way is to define the main five elements and the secondary five elements of a Chinese character based on the meaning of the Chinese characters.

For the word "Li", some software tests the five elements of gold, some software tests wood, and some software tests water. A common problem with the five elements of Chinese characters measured by the software is that no matter what character it is, there is only one five elements. So we use the meaning of the Chinese characters to analyze the five elements of the character "Li". The character "Li" is a common surname. Of course, no one uses surnames to define the five elements. , it can only be defined by the meaning of the word "李". The word "李" above it means "wood", and its own meaning is "plum tree" or wood. From this, it is determined that the main five elements of "Li" are "wood". , the lower half of the character "李" is Zi, and Zi is Zishui, thus defining the second five lines of "Li" Zi as "water" and finally defining the five lines of "Li" as wood and water.

Knowledge expansion of the five-element attributes of Chinese characters: the five-element attributes of the twelve earthly branches

The twelve earthly branches govern the five elements and have similar meanings to the heavenly stems.

The months Yin and Mao are the first and second months of spring, which is when the wind and wood in the east are in season, so Yin and Mao both belong to wood in the five elements.

Si and Wu are the fourth and fifth months of summer, when the hot weather in the south is in season, so Si and Wu both belong to fire in the five elements.

The months of Shen and You fall in July and August in autumn, which is when the dry gold atmosphere in the West is in season. Therefore, Shen and You both belong to gold in the five elements.

The months of Hai and Zi fall in the tenth and eleventh months of winter, when the cold water in the north is in season, so Hai and Zi both belong to water in the five elements.

Chen, Wei, Xu, and Chou live in the four seasons and months of spring, summer, autumn, and winter respectively. The air of the central moist earth is sent to the four seasons months, so the five elements of Chen, Wei, Xu, and Chou all belong to earth. Specifically speaking, it is the four months of spring, March, ***chen, summer, June, Wei, autumn, September, September, Xu, winter and December. The eighteen days before the Beginning of Spring, Beginning of Summer, Beginning of Autumn, and Beginning of Winter are all the times when the central earth sends the king.

The five-element attributes of the twelve earthly branches Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai: Haizi belongs to water, Yinmao belongs to wood, and Siwu belongs to fire. , Shen You belongs to metal, Chen Xu Chou does not belong to earth.