Reference table

The Complete 60 Sexagenary Pairs

The sexagenary cycle pairs 10 Heavenly Stems with 12 Earthly Branches. The stems complete a round every 10 years and the branches every 12, so only after 60 years do both return to the starting point, Giáp Tý. The table below lists all 60 pairs in full.

Read across the row: position in the cycle, stem, branch, full name, then the Na Yin element and its name (Giáp Tý and Ất Sửu, for instance, are both Hải Trung Kim, "gold in the sea"). The last column lists the solar years between 1927 and 2046 that fall on that pair. Each Na Yin name covers exactly two consecutive pairs, so the 60 rows carry only 30 distinct names.

This is traditional Vietnamese calendrical and folk knowledge, published here as a cultural reference rather than as a basis for predicting anyone's fortune.

A year's Can Chi follows the LUNAR year. This table approximates it with the solar year (as the rest of the site does), so the stretch from 1 January to Tết still belongs to the previous year's Can Chi.