Finding your Chinese Animal Sign is easy. Exact dates make it easy to know your true chinese zodic sign.

Finding Your Chinese Animal Sign

Get your true animal sign. Many places that give you just a year and a zodiac sign are giving you incorrect information. You need the exact date of when the Chinese New Year starts or you could have the wrong Chinese Zodiac sign. It is not your birth year, but the Chinese New Year that preceded your birthday that determines your Chinese Zodiac sign.


To find your Chinese Zodiac sign, go to the table below and find your Chinese birth year that starts before your birthday. You must be born after the start of the Chinese New Year to be of that sign. If you were born in January or February, your sign might have been from the year before. For example, if you were born on February 15 of 1958 your birth year would be year of the Fire Rooster. If you had been born on Febuary the 18th of 1958 your birth year would be year of the Earth Dog. Once you have found your Chinese lunisolar year, read to the right and find your Chinese Animal sign. Once you know your sign don't forget to look up your friends anumaal signs. Then explore and see what the chinese animal signs says about your friends.




Select your decade below to see your sign.
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Each sign has either a Yin(femininity) or Yang(masculinity) assigned to it as well as one of the five elements. If you were born in 1898 on/after the date of the Chinese New Year, you would be an Earth Dog; but if you had been born in 1910 on/after the date of the Chinese New Year, you would be a Metal Dog.


So which of the twelve Chinese zodiac animal symbols (Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Dog, Pig) are you? Once you have found your Chinese zodiac sign; you can find your personality traits, compatible zodiac signs, incompatible zodiac signs, your lucky numbers, and celebrties who share your sign.