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伤官
Hurting Officer 伤官 in Bazi: Meaning, Rule & Day Master Table
Hurting Officer 伤官: Day Master generates it, with opposite polarity. For a Jia 甲 Yang Wood Day Master, it is Ding 丁 Yin Fire; its traditional reading centres on talent and questioning standards.
Hurting Officer has a pronounced association with talent, articulate expression and resistance to established standards. In a chart reading, it can bring attention to the urge to question, improve or say what others leave unspoken. The tension lies between insight and dismissal: a sharp observation may open understanding, while pride in being right can narrow the conversation.
- Phase relation
- Day Master generates it
- Polarity test
- Different polarity
The two coordinates that produce the name
How Hurting Officer is calculated
Read Hurting Officer as different-polarity output. The phase movement is identical to Eating God; only the polarity comparison changes the conventional name.
Compare phases
Day Master generates it
This phase relationship selects a pair of Ten Gods names before polarity distinguishes the two members.
Open the five-phase relationships →Compare yin and yang
Different polarity
The target stem has the opposite polarity as the Day Master, which selects Hurting Officer.
Open the polarity coordinate →The complete ten-stem mapping
Which target produces Hurting Officer for every Day Master
Each Day Master has exactly one target stem that produces this name. The phase changes from row to row, but the relationship and polarity rule remain constant.
| Day Master | Target stem | Phase relation | Polarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 甲JiaYang Wood | 丁DingYin Fire | Day Master generates it | Different polarity |
| 乙YiYin Wood | 丙BingYang Fire | Day Master generates it | Different polarity |
| 丙BingYang Fire | 己JiYin Earth | Day Master generates it | Different polarity |
| 丁DingYin Fire | 戊WuYang Earth | Day Master generates it | Different polarity |
| 戊WuYang Earth | 辛XinYin Metal | Day Master generates it | Different polarity |
| 己JiYin Earth | 庚GengYang Metal | Day Master generates it | Different polarity |
| 庚GengYang Metal | 癸GuiYin Water | Day Master generates it | Different polarity |
| 辛XinYin Metal | 壬RenYang Water | Day Master generates it | Different polarity |
| 壬RenYang Water | 乙YiYin Wood | Day Master generates it | Different polarity |
| 癸GuiYin Water | 甲JiaYang Wood | Day Master generates it | Different polarity |
Placement changes the reading scale
Where Hurting Officer can appear in a chart
The name always comes from the same calculation. What changes is where the target stem is found: on the surface of a natal pillar, inside a branch, or in the stem of a year being compared with the natal chart.
- 01 · Visible stems
On the chart’s surface
A visible Hurting Officer stem shows the generated phase openly in a pillar, expressed through the polarity opposite the Day Master.
See the four visible pillars → - 02 · Hidden stems
Inside an Earthly Branch
A hidden Hurting Officer is an internal generated stem with the opposite polarity. Read it through the branch and through its primary, middle or residual position.
Open the hidden-stem map → - 03 · Annual stem
Compared year by year
When the year stem is Hurting Officer, the natal Day Master generates that annual phase while the two polarities differ.
Compare a birth chart with the current year →