天河水 · Water of the Heavenly River

tiān hé shuǐ · the Na Yin of 丙午 and 丁未

天河水 Water of the Heavenly River, tiān hé shuǐ, is the Na Yin of the pillars 丙午 and 丁未: a Water element with an image of its own, one of the thirty Na Yin of the sixty-pillar cycle. Any pillar of a chart, and any day in the almanac, that is 丙午 or 丁未 carries it.

Na Yin 纳音, the "received sound", gives each pair of pillars in the sixty-cycle an element and an image of its own. It is read alongside the elements of the stem and branch, not instead of them, and the element it names can differ from both.

The facts

Element

水 Water

Pillars

丙午丁未

Each Na Yin covers two consecutive pillars of the sixty-cycle.

丙午丁未

Where you meet it

• Under each pillar in the Pro chart view.
• On every almanac day page, for the day pillar.

Na Yin is one layer among several. It adds an image to a pillar; it does not replace the elements of its stem and branch.