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Seven Killings

Also called Qīshā 七殺 / 七杀 · Partial Officer 偏官 · Seven Sha

The Ten Gods relation for a stem that controls the Day Master and shares its polarity; it is also called Partial Officer.

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The Ten Gods relation for a visible stem that controls the Day Master and shares its polarity; it is also called Partial Officer.

For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Geng (庚, Yang Metal) is Seven Killings/Partial Officer. The name is not a prediction of violence, danger, criminality, or death.

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Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源 ↗Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap ↗

Name, translation and provenance

Qīshā 七殺, literally ‘seven killings’; the same source gives piānguān 偏官, ‘partial officer’, as an alias.

The historical text records the alternate name. It does not warrant literal forecasting from the English name. Partial Officer (偏官, piānguān) is a common related label; some classical treatments distinguish it by whether the relation is restrained.

The cited traditional text preserves the classification vocabulary; it does not by itself establish the first date or author of this term.

Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源 ↗Sanming Tonghui 三命通會 · 卷五#論偏官 ↗

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Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源 ↗Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap ↗

Word origin · etymology

Qīshā 七殺, literally ‘seven killings’; the same source gives piānguān 偏官, ‘partial officer’, as an alias.

The historical text records the alternate name. It does not warrant literal forecasting from the English name. Partial Officer (偏官, piānguān) is a common related label; some classical treatments distinguish it by whether the relation is restrained.

Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源 ↗Sanming Tonghui 三命通會 · 卷五#論偏官 ↗

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Relational classification

For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Geng (庚, Yang Metal) is Seven Killings/Partial Officer. The name is not a prediction of violence, danger, criminality, or death.

Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源 ↗

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  1. Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源 ↗
  2. Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap ↗
  3. Sanming Tonghui 三命通會 · 卷五#論偏官 ↗