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Six Clash (Liu Chong): every pair, derived

The six clashes are the hardest opposition among the twelve branches: each branch has exactly one clash partner, six seats away on the wheel. This page lists all six pairs with their element relations.

Computed facts (engine-verified + build-time assertions)

This page is generated from engine vv0.14.0; the pairs follow convention R35 on the methodology page, and the generator refuses to render if any cross-check fails. Audit item by item.

Pairs6 (each branch has exactly one clash)
Geometryclash = +6 on the wheel, exactly past the halfway mark — build-time assertion (12/12)
Element patternWater-Fire twice, Metal-Wood twice, Earth-Earth twice (Chen and Si and Xu and Hai are all Earth yet clash each other)
SourceBRANCH_CLASH (engine constant)

The complete table

One row per pair or group: members, nature and a one-step derivation. Nothing omitted — the table is the full set.

PairElement relationOne-step derivation
子 Zi · 午 WuWater vs Fireexactly six seats apart on the wheel (0 + 6 = 6) — opposite means past the halfway mark
丑 Chou · 未 WeiEarth vs Earthexactly six seats apart on the wheel (1 + 6 = 7) — opposite means past the halfway mark
寅 Yin · 申 ShenWood vs Metalexactly six seats apart on the wheel (2 + 6 = 8) — opposite means past the halfway mark
卯 Mao · 酉 YouWood vs Metalexactly six seats apart on the wheel (3 + 6 = 9) — opposite means past the halfway mark
辰 Chen · 戌 XuEarth vs Earthexactly six seats apart on the wheel (4 + 6 = 10) — opposite means past the halfway mark
巳 Si · 亥 HaiFire vs Waterexactly six seats apart on the wheel (5 + 6 = 11) — opposite means past the halfway mark

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Enter your birth moment (time optional). The page finds every hit of this relation among the six pairwise combinations of your four pillars.

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.

Frequently asked

Why is the clash +6?
The clash is an antipodal relation: six seats on a twelve-seat wheel is exactly the far side of the circle. This site enforces it as a build-time assertion (12/12) — any table slip refuses to render.
How do Zi-Wu and Chen-Xu differ?
By element relation: Zi-Wu is Water against Fire, while Chen-Xu is Earth against Earth (same element). Of the six pairs, Water-Fire and Metal-Wood take two each, Earth-Earth two — all marked per pair in the table.
Does a clash mean conflict?
No. A clash is a structural relation (antipodal, past the halfway mark); the classics read it as stirring, opening or removing. Good or bad depends on whether the branch is favored — a whole-chart judgment this page does not make.

The other seven relation pages

Heavenly Stem Combination →  ·  Heavenly Stem Clash →  ·  Six Harmony (Liu He) →  ·  Six Harm (Liu Hai) →  ·  Three Harmony (San He) →  ·  Punishment (Xing) →  ·  Half Combination (Ban He) →

Reference index

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.