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Zodiac years and clash years How your birth year meets this year
The twelve zodiac years on this site, zodiac years for people born early in the year, and the Chong, Hai, Po and Xing relations it shows for clash years.
Twelve zodiac years
The Chinese zodiac gives each year one of twelve animals in a fixed cycle: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig. Each animal stands for an earthly branch, and the branch is what this site compares when it looks for clash years.
Zodiac years for early-year births
The Chinese calendar does not start its year on 1 January, so a person born in January or early February can belong to the zodiac year before. The two birth dates below are both in 1990, yet they have different zodiac animals.
People born in early February can also see one animal in the zodiac tool and a different animal in the year pillar of a BaZi chart. Both results come from the same birth date, and each tool reads it in its own tradition.
Examples from this site's calculator
What you enter
- Born 20 January 1990Result Year of the Snake
- Born 10 February 1990Result Year of the Horse
What a clash year is
A clash year is a year whose branch has a relation with the branch of your birth year. This site shows four relations: Chong, the direct clash, and Hai, Po and Xing, which it shows by their Chinese names. A birth year that is the same as the current year is shown as Kak.
The list below is the result for 2027, the Year of the Goat, from the same rules the tools use.
How birth years relate to 2027, the Year of the Goat
Relation
- Chong (direct clash)Birth years Year of the Ox
- HaiBirth years Year of the Rat
- PoBirth years Year of the Dog
- XingBirth years Year of the Ox and Year of the Dog
How to read a clash result
The labels describe a relation in Chinese tradition. They do not say what will happen in that year. The full list of birth years for the year is on the clash year page. All results follow the rules this site uses and are traditional belief, not predictions.