About K-Soul Seal

How your name is made

1. Your birth chart. From your date of birth (and hour, if you know it) we work out the Four Pillars — year, month, day and hour — in the traditional sixty-cycle calendar. Each pillar is a pair of characters, and each character belongs to one of the five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal and water.
2. The balance of elements. We count the elements across the pillars to see which are strong and which are weak. In Korean naming tradition, a name is meant to support the weakest element.
3. Choosing hanja. We suggest Korean names whose syllables can be written with hanja that carry the needed element and a good meaning, and explain what each character means.
4. Carving the seal. Your chosen name is written in hangul in Gungseo, the brush calligraphy style of the Joseon royal court, and laid out inside a seal frame on our own server. It is drawn from real font outlines, not painted by an image generator, so every stroke is a correct letter.

What we use, honestly

• The birth-chart reading and name suggestions are written by an AI model (Google Gemini) that we give the traditional reference tables — the ten Heavenly Stems, twelve Earthly Branches and their elements — and strict instructions. We check its output format, but a human does not review each reading.
• Hanja meanings in the Korean name dictionary come from the official list of characters allowed in Korean given names (published by the Supreme Court of Korea) and public hanja dictionary data. English meanings are translations of those entries, not new inventions.
• The element of each syllable in the dictionary follows the traditional sound-based rule: it is decided by the syllable's first consonant.
• The optional hanbok character illustration is made with an AI image model.

What a reading is — and isn't

Saju is a cultural tradition, not a science. Your reading is a fun, respectful way to explore how Koreans think about names and fortune; it does not predict your future and is not advice on health, money or relationships.

If you plan to use your Korean name for something lasting — a tattoo, a legal document, a business — please have a Korean speaker look at it first. Hanja can be read in more than one way, and a second pair of eyes is cheap insurance.

Free and paid

Creating a name, the reading and the HD digital seal download are free, with no sign-up. We also sell physical wood seals carved from your name in our shop; the site is supported by those sales and by advertising.