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The Chinese Zodiac

The Year of the Rabbit

Gentle, gracious, and perceptive — strength wrapped in softness.
The Rabbit — Chinese zodiac illustration
glyph
pinyin Mǎo
fixed element Wood
polarity Yin
the wheel turns every twelve years

Years of the Rabbit

1951 1963 1975 1987 1999 2011 2023 2035

The next Year of the Rabbit is 2035. Born in one of these years, after Lichun in early February? The Rabbit is your sign.

the nature of the Rabbit

Personality & Character

The Rabbit moves through the world with a diplomat's grace and an artist's eye. You are gentle, refined, and acutely sensitive to atmosphere — you feel the unspoken tension in a room and instinctively smooth it. Peace is not weakness in you but a genuine value; you would rather find the elegant compromise than win the ugly argument. Beneath the softness lies real discernment: you read people well, keep your own counsel, and withdraw gracefully from whatever coarsens you. The shadow is conflict-avoidance — a tendency to soothe or slip away rather than say the hard true thing. You can prize comfort so highly that you shrink from necessary risk. But your kindness is a form of intelligence, and your calm steadies everyone around you. At your best, you prove that gentleness, far from fragile, is one of the most durable strengths there is — the quiet force that outlasts the loud one.

In Love

You are a tender, considerate partner who creates beauty and ease wherever you settle. You love harmony and give it generously, attuned to your partner's moods sometimes before your own. You need safety and softness in return — harshness wounds you deeply, even when it isn't aimed at you. Your secret friend is the loyal Dog; Goat and Pig share your gentle, aesthetic soul. Practice honesty over mere peace — real closeness needs the truth spoken kindly.

In Work & Career

You bring diplomacy, taste, and a calming intelligence to your work, thriving where refinement and human sensitivity matter — the arts, design, counseling, hospitality, healing, any field that rewards making things graceful and people at ease. You dislike cutthroat competition and do your best work in supportive settings. The growth edge is advocacy: the Rabbit who learns to speak up for their own worth, not only for others' comfort, rises further than they ever expect to.

who the Rabbit runs with

Harmony & Compatibility

The San He Trine

The Rabbit’s two natural allies — the classical “three harmonies” that pull in the same direction.

The Secret Friend

The Liu He bond — the quiet, protective partner who covers the Rabbit’s blind spots.

The Rooster

The Classical Clash — the Rooster

The Rooster sits directly across the wheel from the Rabbit. Read it as weather, not doom: a clash is contrast and friction, never a curse — two different tempos that can grate, or balance beautifully once each makes a little room for the other.

Born in January or early February? The Chinese year doesn’t begin on January 1st — it turns at Lichun, when the Sun reaches 315°, usually around February 4th. A birthday just before it may truly belong to the animal before the Rabbit. The calculator settles it from the real position of the Sun →

the Rabbit, in brief

Common Asks

What years are the Year of the Rabbit?
Recent Rabbit years include 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, and 2023. Since the year turns at Lichun (around February 4th), a late-January or early-February birthday may belong to the Tiger year before it — the calculator settles the boundary from the Sun itself.
Who is the Rabbit most compatible with?
The Rabbit harmonizes beautifully with the Goat and the Pig — its San He trine of gentle, artistic souls — and enjoys a devoted secret-friend bond with the Dog. Its classical clash is the Rooster, whose bluntness meets the Rabbit's softness; contrast to navigate, not a sentence.
Are Rabbits too passive?
The Rabbit's calm is often mistaken for passivity, but it is usually discernment choosing peace on purpose. The strength deepens when gentleness learns to hold a boundary — kindness and honesty are allies, not opposites.
your animal is only the first pillar

See Your Whole Chart

Your birth year names your animal — but a full BaZi chart holds four pillars: year, month, day, and hour, and the balance of all five elements woven through you. It’s free, and it settles your true animal to the exact moment of the Sun.

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