Shen sha 31 / 36 · Sickly Symbol
The Sickly Symbol is one of the 36 shen sha, anchored on the year branch → four branches. The Sickly Symbol is last year’s Tai Sui: simply the branch before the year branch. The table below is the complete lookup — every row links to the branch or pillar page so you can verify it — and the picker repeats the same engine data for whichever anchor you choose.
This page is generated by engine v0.14.0, not hand-written; the table was cross-checked against external sources and against its own derivation (see methodology R32).
| Star | 病符 Bing Fu · Sickly Symbol |
|---|---|
| Anchor | year branch → four branches |
| Table rows | 12 |
A note on what this page deliberately does not do: the popular versions of this material assign a fixed personality to each term — one character per branch, one destiny per stage. This site rejects that framing. What is published here is a structural position: which element sits where, on what kind of ground, with which tenants inside. The same term reads differently under a different month command, and no meaningful judgement exists without the other characters of the chart. Where the tradition offers a reading it is labelled as the tradition's; this site's own contribution is that every number and term on this page is computed, versioned and checkable against the methodology page.
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Every enumerable component of ba zi has its own page here. Each page is computed by the same engine and can be checked item by item — none of it is a personality table.