丁 (Hinoto): meaning and personality
A lamp or candle flame burning quietly in the dark.
On this page
- Japanese reading
- Hinoto
- Sino-Japanese
- tei
- Element
- Fire
- Yin / Yang
- Yin
- Image
- A lamp flame
- Season
- Summer
- Direction
- South
- Color
- Red
1.An old reading of 丁
The Book of Han reads 丁 as “大盛”, flourishing: plants have filled out and are at their most vigorous.
The Japanese name Hinoto means “the younger brother of Fire”: e (兄) for the yang stems and to (弟) for the yin stems. See also what are the ten stems?.
2.Personality when your Day Master is 丁
In Four Pillars astrology, the stem of the day you were born (the Day Master) represents you yourself. A 丁 Day Master is likened to a lamp flame.
Strengths
Sensitive, with a passion you keep inside, you read the subtleties of people's hearts and can go deep into one subject.
Things to watch
Your fine nerves mean you can tire yourself out by worrying, and your emotions may swing widely.
3.Work and career
Research, writing, crafts, medicine, divination and religion: specialist work that keeps lighting one path.
4.Love and marriage
Calm on the outside, passionate inside. You pour deep love into the person you have opened your heart to.
5.丁 and the other stems
Compatibility between stems is read from the generating and controlling cycles of the five elements, plus the special “stem combinations” (kangō).
| Other stem | Element | Relationship |
|---|---|---|
| Kinoe (甲) | Wood | Generating: this stem feeds you |
| Kinoto (乙) | Wood | Generating: this stem feeds you |
| Hinoe (丙) | Fire | Same element: an easy, like-minded match |
| Tsuchinoe (戊) | Earth | Generating: you feed this stem |
| Tsuchinoto (己) | Earth | Generating: you feed this stem |
| Kanoe (庚) | Metal | Controlling: you restrain this stem |
| Kanoto (辛) | Metal | Controlling: you restrain this stem |
| Mizunoe (壬) | Water | Controlling: this stem restrains you; kangō (stem combination, transforms to Wood): a strong mutual attraction |
| Mizunoto (癸) | Water | Controlling: this stem restrains you |
6.The six eto containing 丁
丁卯 Hinoto-u, 丁丑 Hinoto-ushi, 丁亥 Hinoto-i, 丁酉 Hinoto-tori, 丁未 Hinoto-hitsuji, 丁巳 Hinoto-mi
7.Lucky tips
Light a candle, read at night and carry something purple or deep crimson.
Your Day Master can be calculated from your date of birth. Use the free Four Pillars chart to see your Day Master and the balance of your five elements.
8.FAQ
How do you read 丁?
In Japanese it is read “hinoto”; the Sino-Japanese reading is “tei”.
What element is 丁?
丁 is Yin Fire.