Revati रेवती · pada 4 of 4
Revati Pada 4 Baby Names — Chi (ची)
6 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Pisces 26°40′ – 30°00′ — the fourth quarter of Revati, whose syllable is Chi. Moon sign Pisces, navamsa Pisces.
- Pada
- fourth of four · Revati is nakshatra 27 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Chi ची
- Span
- Pisces 26°40′ – 30°00′ · 356°40′ – 360°00′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Pisces (Meena)
- Navamsa
- Pisces (Meena) — the 1st navamsa from Pisces · vargottama · gandanta
- Names listed
- 3 boys' names, 3 girls' names
- Position in Pisces
- the ninth of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Mercury · presiding deity Pushan · symbol Fish
Names beginning Chi for Revati pada 4
Chi is what the fourth quarter of Revati is assigned, and to no other pada of the 108. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Pisces 26°40′ – 30°00′, and the meaning matters as much as the sound: a name is used for a lifetime and the gloss is the part a child will be told.
Boys' names — 3
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Chinmay | full of consciousness |
| Chitresh | lord of the wonderful |
| Chirag | a lamp, in Hindi |
Girls' names — 3
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Chitra | a painting — also the fourteenth nakshatra |
| Chinmayi | full of consciousness |
| Chitrangada | one of Arjuna's wives |
Where the Pisces naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Pisces — Di Du Tha Jha Tra De Do Cha Chi — usually with no explanation of why there are nine. They are the pada syllables that fall inside the sign. There are 108 padas and twelve signs, 108 divides by twelve exactly, and so every sign holds precisely nine padas with nothing left over. The rashi list and the pada syllable are not two competing traditions; the first is the second, collected by sign.
Revati pada 4 is the ninth of the nine, contributing Chi at 356°40′ – 360°00′ sidereal. That is worth knowing if a family has been given the rashi list rather than the pada: any of the nine satisfies a Pisces birth, so a family working from the list alone has eight usable syllables, while a pandit working from a birth time narrows it to the one this pada owns.
| # | Syllable | From | Names listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Di दि | Purva Bhadrapada pada 4 | 9 |
| 2 | Du दू | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Tha ठ / थ | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 | none |
| 4 | Jha झ | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 3 | 2 |
| 5 | Tra ञ | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 4 | 7 |
| 6 | De दे | Revati pada 1 | 10 |
| 7 | Do डो / दो | Revati pada 2 | 1 |
| 8 | Cha च | Revati pada 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Chi ची | Revati pada 4 — this pada | 6 |
The other three padas of Revati
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the fourth quarter of Revati occupies Pisces 26°40′ – 30°00′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Revati itself: Mercury as lord, Pushan as presiding deity, the fish as symbol, and a character read as nurturing, journeying, compassionate. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Chi for pada 4 and De, Do and Cha for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | De दे | Pisces | Sagittarius | 10 |
| Pada 2 | Do डो / दो | Pisces | Capricorn | 1 |
| Pada 3 | Cha च | Pisces | Aquarius | 8 |
| Pada 4 — this page | Chi ची | Pisces | Pisces | 6 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Revati profile, are on the Revati baby names page. The pada follows from the Moon’s exact longitude, so it needs the time and place of birth — the baby name finder resolves it from a birth date, and the Revati pada 4 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Revati pada 4 — common questions
What letter should a Revati pada 4 baby's name start with?
Chi, in Devanagari ची. That syllable belongs to the fourth pada of Revati specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Revati's other three are De for pada 1, Do for pada 2 and Cha for pada 3.
How many names begin with Chi?
6 names, 3 for boys and 3 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Chi carries, and so what the fourth pada of Revati offers. The count is uneven across the 108 padas by nature: the syllables come from dividing the zodiac, not from asking what Sanskrit allows at the start of a word, so Revati pada 4 gets what Chi actually begins.
Which rashi is Revati pada 4?
Pisces — Meena, entered at 356°40′ – 360°00′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Revati sits wholly inside Pisces, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 4 adds is its place in the sign — ninth of the nine Pisces syllables, Chi.
Are all nine Pisces naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Pisces is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Chi is not duplicated anywhere else in Di Du Tha Jha Tra De Do Cha Chi. That is not true of every sign: Sagittarius carries Dha twice, for the dental and retroflex forms, and yields eight spellings from its nine padas. Within Pisces, Revati pada 4 owns Chi outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Revati pada 4?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Revati pada 4 it is Chi. The navamsa — Pisces here, the 1st navamsa counted from Pisces — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter. This pada is vargottama: Pisces in the rashi chart and Pisces again in the navamsa, which is traditionally read as the sign's qualities doubling. This pada is also gandanta, sitting on the junction between a water sign and a fire sign, for which a pandit will usually want the birth chart before fixing the rite.
Naming a Revati pada 4 child?
The syllable is fixed by the pada, but the namakaran itself is fixed by the chart and by the day — which is a reading rather than a table. Our pandits do both.