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The ten heavenly stems

The ten heavenly stems with the five-element attribution and yin-yang polarity of each.

10 rows · 8 columns · version 1.1.1, last changed 2026-09-30

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idthu_tucanngu_hanhngu_hanh_enam_duongnguonghi_chu
11GiápMộcWoodDươngquy-uoc-truyen-thong
22ẤtMộcWoodÂmquy-uoc-truyen-thong
33BínhHỏaFireDươngquy-uoc-truyen-thong
44ĐinhHỏaFireÂmquy-uoc-truyen-thong
55MậuThổEarthDươngquy-uoc-truyen-thong
66KỷThổEarthÂmquy-uoc-truyen-thong
77CanhKimMetalDươngquy-uoc-truyen-thong
88TânKimMetalÂmquy-uoc-truyen-thong
99NhâmThủyWaterDươngquy-uoc-truyen-thong
1010QuýThủyWaterÂmquy-uoc-truyen-thong

What the columns mean

id (string)
Stable row identifier, unchanged across versions
thu_tu (int)
Position in the cycle of 10, Giáp is 1 and Quý is 10
can (string)
Heavenly Stem name
ngu_hanh (string)
Five Elements of the stem
ngu_hanh_en (string)
Five Elements of the stem, in English
am_duong (string)
Yin or Yang
nguon (string)
Kind of source for this row, one or more parts separated by semicolons, each being tinh-toan (computed by the engine), quy-uoc-truyen-thong, quy-uoc-he-hien-dai (convention of a tradition or of a modern system), van-ban (with the work after a colon) or bien-tap (with details); static details are also in the metadata nguon_chi_tiet, and the two largest datasets give them only there; which column belongs to which part is given by each column's loai_bang_chung in the metadata
ghi_chu (string)
Where the schools disagree on this row; empty when they do not

Release

Data release ID
2026.10.27-cd6fca71 · manifest.json
Dataset version
1.1.1
Dataset last changed
2026-09-30The date in the release ID is when the most recently changed dataset of the whole release changed. This dataset has not changed since the date above, so it keeps its version and is still part of this release.
Generated
2026-10-27 08:07 UTC
Rows
10 rows, 8 columns
Schema hash
6c726102539a14d0…sha256 of each column's name and type

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Changes

Version 1.1.1 (2026-09-30), type documentation: Metadata adds source_ids (source register nguon-thu-tich.csv), rule_ids (rule register quy-tac.json), danh_muc_tu_vung_nguon (the eight kinds of the nguon column with their English equivalents), a per-column epistemic_status and danh_muc_epistemic_status; the data is unchanged byte for byte.

Changelog of every dataset (CHANGELOG on GitHub)

Method

This dataset goes through no calendar model.

Engine version of the release: 2.0.0.

Verification

Evidence types in this dataset, and how far each can be checked:

  • C. Convention of a tradition or of a modern system: correct by that convention, neither true nor false in an empirical sense; where schools differ is recorded in the diem-bat-dong-giua-cac-phai dataset.

Provenance

A lookup table copied from the source texts or systems named in nguon_thu_tich and the nguon column.

  • C. Convention of a tradition or of a modern system: thu_tu, can, ngu_hanh, ngu_hanh_en, am_duong

Cite this dataset

Nhật Nguyệt (2026). The ten heavenly stems (version 1.1.1, data release 2026.10.27-cd6fca71) [Data set]. CC BY 4.0. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23009396. https://nhatnguyet.org/en/bang/10-thien-can

The concept DOI always resolves to the latest release. Zenodo mints a DOI for each release after it is published, and the next release records it in the manifest.

Licence and limitations

Released under CC BY 4.0: reuse commercially, adapt freely, attribution is all that is asked.

Source: Nhật Nguyệt (nhatnguyet.org), CC BY 4.0

This dataset records cultural and calendrical conventions, not scientific claims. It is suitable for cultural research, NLP, and calendar applications. It is not intended for predicting events, evaluating people, or making decisions that affect anyone.

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