Five Grids name calculator

Cast by the Five Grids method, with strokes counted the Kangxi dictionary way — 氵 counts as 4, 艹 as 6, and simplified characters count as their traditional forms. The stroke table is generated from Unicode's Unihan database rather than copied by hand.

Kangxi strokes and modern strokes can differ by several, and one wrong count throws off all five grids. This article sets out the method and the data behind it →

The grids alone only say whether a name's numbers are good. The same name against different charts can give opposite conclusions — add a birth date to see whether the name supplies the element your chart needs →