# Chinese Shichen (时辰) Time Converter

> Chinese Shichen (时辰) Time Converter is a paid API for AI agents from api.cn402.com, paid per call via x402, $0.016/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Converts any time of day to the corresponding Chinese shichen — one of 12 traditional two-hour periods — returning its name, zodiac animal, and elemental association

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.cn402.com/timepoint
- Price: $0.016/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-cn402-com-3f63c22c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_WYj8-5Fa3ucDSDZCtez6J

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability api-cn402-com-3f63c22c
```

Example prompt: What Chinese shichen does 2:30pm fall into — give me its name in Chinese characters, the associated zodiac animal, and its elemental association.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to map a specific clock time to a traditional Chinese shichen period — essential for BaZi chart calculations, TCM meridian timing, Chinese astrology interpretations, or any application that needs to express time in classical Chinese cosmological terms rather than just the Western clock.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or missing time input returns an error
- Out-of-range time values (e.g. 25:00) rejected
- Malformed POST body returns 400-style error
- Payment not provided or insufficient results in 402 response

## How this service works

Chinese hour, shichen, 时辰, 12 traditional Chinese hours, zi chou yin mao chen si wu wei shen you xu hai, 子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥, Chinese double hour, 2-hour Chinese time period. Convert any time of day to the corresponding Chinese shichen (one of 12 two-hour periods), including its name, zodiac animal, and elemental association.

## Output

Returns the shichen (time period) name in Chinese and romanized form (e.g. 午/Wu), the associated zodiac animal (e.g. Horse), the elemental/phase association, and the two-hour window it covers (e.g. 11am–1pm).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "from": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Source format (optional)"
  },
  "target": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Target lang (required)"
  }
 }
}
```

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