Chinese Zodiac Birth Year Guide
Discover your Chinese zodiac sign, elemental personality, and heavenly stem-earthly branch combination. Each year carries a unique cosmic energy that shapes the character of those born within it.
Quick Birth Year Lookup
Click any year to see your sign, element, and complete profile
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1. Find Your Year
Look up your birth year in the table above. Each year belongs to one of the 60 stem-branch combinations in the Chinese sexagenary cycle.
2. Your Stem-Branch
Each year pairs a Heavenly Stem (天干) with an Earthly Branch (地支). This combination defines the elemental energy of your birth year.
3. Your Element
The Heavenly Stem determines your birth year element — Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, or Water — which reveals your core personality traits.
The 12 Zodiac Animals & Their Elements
Each zodiac animal cycles through all five elements over a 60-year cycle. The same animal can have different elemental expressions — for example, a Wood Rat is different from a Fire Rat.
Click any year above to see the specific elemental combination and complete personality profile for that birth year.