Year of the Ox: Meaning and Personality
Find your Chinese zodiac animal, element and yin-yang polarity — with the Lunar New Year boundary handled correctly.
Ox
Patient, dependable and quietly strong, the Ox builds prosperity the slow, honest way. Its challenge is flexibility when the field suddenly changes.
About this tool
Recent Years of the Ox are 1997, 2009 and 2021; the next arrives in 2033. Remember the boundary: the Chinese year begins at the Lunar New Year, somewhere between late January and late February, so being born in the first weeks of an Ox year can actually place you under the previous sign, the Rat.
Second in the cycle, the Ox stands for patience, dependability and quiet strength — prosperity built the slow, honest way. Its challenge is flexibility when the field suddenly changes. The year's element adds its own flavor: a Metal Ox is famously more stubborn than a Water Ox.
The full calculator takes any birth date and returns the complete sign — animal, element and yin or yang — using a table of exact Lunar New Year dates from 1924 to 2043. It runs entirely in your browser; no date ever leaves your device.
Example. 2000-02-05 is a yang Metal Dragon, while 2000-02-04 is still a yin Earth Rabbit.
Limit. Exact Lunar New Year dates are tabulated only from 1924 through 2043; years outside that range fall back to the calendar year.