Zodiac Signs

Each Gregorian year maps to one of twelve Chinese zodiac animals (生肖, shēngxiào), cycling in a fixed twelve-year order. Look up any birth year from 1924 to 2032 in the table below to find its animal, its earthly branch, its full stem-branch year pillar, and its element. A person born in 2024 is a Dragon, 2025 a Snake, 2026 a Horse — but the animal alone is only half the sign: the same animal returns every twelve years paired with a different element, so the full combination repeats only every sixty years.