Si (巳, sì) is a yin earthly branch of fire, in the southeast, in summer.
The branch's precise direction is one of the twelve 30-degree sectors of the 24-mountain ring; `direction` gives the nearest of the corpus's eight compass points, and the two differ by design. The month is a solar month delimited by a jie solar term, not a lunar month. The branch cycle starts at Zi (11th month) while the Chinese year starts at Yin (1st month), so the numbering of months and branches is offset.
Correspondences
- Number
- 6
- Direction
- Southeast
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Fire
- Season
- Summer
Nature and meaning
- Pinyin
- Sì
- Chinese
- 巳
Details
- Animal
- Snake
- Animal Chinese
- 蛇
- Polarity
- Yin
- Mountain Direction
- South-southeast
- Degrees
- 150
- Hours
- 09:00-11:00
- Month
- 4th month (May 5 - Jun 5)
- Keywords
- Early summerYin fireRising heatConcealment
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🐉 Chinese zodiac 1
- Snake Branch
⛰ Feng shui mountains 1
- Si Branch
More in Chinese calendar
The entries either side of this one in the same catalogue.
- Chen Chen (辰, chén) is a yang earthly branch of earth, in the southeast, in spring.
- Wu Wu (午, wǔ) is a yang earthly branch of fire, in the south, in summer.
- Mao Mao (卯, mǎo) is a yin earthly branch of wood, in the east, in spring.
- Wei Wei (未, wèi) is a yin earthly branch of earth, in the southwest, in summer.
- Yin Yin (寅, yín) is a yang earthly branch of wood, in the east, in spring.
- Shen Shen (申, shēn) is a yang earthly branch of metal, in the west, in autumn.
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