Some Korean naming traditions consider the five elements when choosing a name. Gemini generates a cultural interpretation of your birth date using the Four Pillars (四柱) — the year, month, day and hour you were born, each written as a pair of characters from the traditional sixty-cycle calendar. Every character belongs to one of the five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal or water.

The reading summarizes element occurrences and identifies the most and least represented categories. Gemini then suggests Korean names with hanja (Chinese characters used in many Korean names) intended to complement the least represented element — for example, a chart short on water might get a name with 潤 (yun, “to enrich”) or 河 (ha, “river”). Each suggestion comes with the hangul spelling, how to say it, and what every character means.

Pick the name you like and it is carved into a digital dojang — the red seal Koreans stamp instead of signing. Your name is written in hangul in Gungseo, the brush calligraphy of the Joseon royal court, rendered from font outlines — and the HD download is free.

Don't know your birth hour? Leave it as unknown. The reading then uses three pillars instead of four; the name still works, it is just based on a little less information.

Saju is a cultural tradition rather than a prediction, so treat your reading as a window into how Koreans think about names. See an invented example result · More about how we work · Browse Korean name meanings