| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: |
| - en |
| - zh |
| pretty_name: The 30 Nayin (纳音) — English Translations and Classical Relations |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| task_categories: |
| - translation |
| tags: |
| - chinese |
| - glossary |
| - terminology |
| - chinese-metaphysics |
| - bazi |
| - four-pillars |
| - nayin |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: nayin.csv |
| - config_name: pillars |
| data_files: v2/pillars.csv |
| - config_name: meetings |
| data_files: v2/matrix.long.csv |
| --- |
| |
| # The Thirty Nayin (纳音) — English Translations |
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| The **nayin** (纳音, *nà yīn*, "received tones") are thirty poetic sound-images from |
| Chinese metaphysics. Each covers two adjacent pairs of the sixty Jiazi (六十甲子) |
| stem-branch cycle and attaches an elemental image to them — not just *Metal*, but |
| *Gold in the Sea*; not just *Fire*, but *Thunderbolt Fire*. |
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| English sources render these names inconsistently: the same nayin turns up as three or |
| four different English strings across sites, which makes the terms impossible to join |
| or cross-reference. This dataset is one carefully considered rendering, published with |
| the reasoning behind each choice so it can be argued with. |
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| ## v2 — classical readings (configs `pillars` and `meetings`) |
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| Structured from volume 1 of the *Sānmìng Tōnghuì* (三命通會, Ming dynasty, Siku Quanshu |
| edition on Wikisource), in the original Chinese. Every relation carries a verbatim quote; |
| `classical/verify.py` on GitHub checks all 750 against the source text. English readings |
| of these pillars and meetings are on [auspiceoracle.com](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/nayin). |
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|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| pillars = load_dataset("Shann5/bazi-nayin", "pillars") # 60 rows: arc stage, image, likes, welcome/avoid/unharmed_by |
| meetings = load_dataset("Shann5/bazi-nayin", "meetings") # 663 rows: subject nayin meets another → + / - / ~ / 0, with quotes |
| ``` |
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| - **`pillars`**: all sixty stem-branch pillars. Arc stage (the thirty images read as one |
| life of qi, six stages), the per-pillar image and what it likes, and the stem-branch |
| pairs or elements it welcomes, avoids, or is unharmed by. |
| - **`meetings`**: from the thirty chapters on how each nayin fares meeting the others. |
| `verdict` is `+` welcomes, `-` avoids, `~` conditional (the condition is in the quote), |
| `0` no effect; `scope` is `element` when filled from a blanket statement |
| ("other metals are of no use"). 663 of 900 pairings; empty pairings are absent. |
| Relations are directional: in 41 pairs the two chapters disagree. |
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| This records what one Ming-dynasty book says, not a claim that any of it comes true. |
| The verdict for each quote is a curation call; the source of truth, JSON versions and |
| the source text are on GitHub: **[Shann5/bazi-open-data](https://github.com/Shann5/bazi-open-data)** — corrections belong there as issues. |
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| ## Fields |
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| | Field | Type | Description | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `hanzi` | string | Nayin name in Chinese characters (e.g. 海中金) | |
| | `pinyin` | string | Tone-marked pinyin (e.g. *hǎi zhōng jīn*) | |
| | `english` | string | English translation of the image (e.g. Gold in the Sea) | |
| | `element` | string | Five-Element category in Chinese (金木水火土) | |
| | `element_en` | string | Five-Element category in English | |
| | `ganzhi` | list[string] | The two stem-branch pairs this nayin covers | |
| | `ganzhi_pinyin` | list[string] | Pinyin of those two pairs | |
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| 30 rows, covering all 60 stem-branch pairs. `nayin.json` keeps `ganzhi` and |
| `ganzhi_pinyin` as two-element arrays; `nayin.csv` splits them into the columns |
| `ganzhi_1`, `ganzhi_2`, `ganzhi_1_pinyin`, `ganzhi_2_pinyin`. |
|
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| ## Translation principles |
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| 1. **Keep the image, not the word order.** 海中金 is "Gold in the Sea", not "Sea Middle Gold". |
| 2. **Say *Gold* when the image is refined treasure, *Metal* when it is raw or forged.** |
| The same character 金 splits into two English words: 海中金 / 沙中金 are gold; |
| 剑锋金 (sword-edge) stays metal. |
| 3. **Use the established English term where one exists** (Milky Way for 天河), and plain |
| concrete English elsewhere. |
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| ## Provenance |
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| The ganzhi→nayin pairing follows the traditional sixty Jiazi order (甲子乙丑海中金 … |
| 壬戌癸亥大海水), cross-checked against |
| [lunar-typescript](https://github.com/6tail/lunar-typescript). The English translations |
| are original work. |
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| One caveat worth stating: a nayin lookup keys off the stem-branch pillars, and those key |
| off birth time in *solar* time, not clock time. Clock time can be off by more than an |
| hour once historical DST, longitude offset from the zone's standard meridian, and the |
| equation of time are stacked — near a two-hour branch boundary that is a different |
| pillar and therefore a different nayin. |
| [How the correction works](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/true-solar-time). |
|
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| ## Source & canonical copy |
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| - GitHub (canonical): <https://github.com/Shann5/bazi-open-data> |
| - Reference page with a prose gloss for each image: |
| <https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/nayin> |
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| This Hugging Face repo is a **mirror**. Corrections go to the GitHub repo as issues. |
|
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| ## License & citation |
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| **CC BY 4.0.** Share and adapt freely, including commercially, with credit and a link. |
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| > Nayin translations by [Auspice Oracle](https://auspiceoracle.com), used under |
| > [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
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| ```bibtex |
| @misc{auspice_bazi_nayin, |
| title = {The Thirty Nayin: English Translations}, |
| author = {Auspice Oracle}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| url = {https://github.com/Shann5/bazi-open-data}, |
| note = {CC BY 4.0} |
| } |
| ``` |
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