Enter your exact birth time to find your Shichen — the two-hour Chinese time block and its animal sign, one quarter of the classical Four Pillars alongside your year, month and day.
An honest note: this tool matches birth time to Shichen using standard clock time, with the Zi (Rat) hour running from 23:00 to 00:59. For precise BaZi purposes, practitioners adjust this against true solar time based on your birth longitude, since clock time (especially with time zones and daylight saving) can shift the boundary near sunrise, noon and midnight by up to an hour or more. For a fully solar-term-accurate Hour Pillar as part of a complete chart, use the full BaZi calculator. This page is a quick, standalone reference.