Year of the Pig: Meaning and Personality
Find your Chinese zodiac animal, element and yin-yang polarity — with the Lunar New Year boundary handled correctly.
Pig
Generous, sincere and fond of life's pleasures, the Pig shares whatever it has. Its challenge is remembering that not everyone plays as fairly.
About this tool
Recent Years of the Pig are 2007, 2019 and 2031; the next opens in 2043. The boundary caveat closes the cycle too: the Chinese year starts at the Lunar New Year, between late January and late February, so an early-year birth in a Pig year may still fall under the previous sign, the Dog.
The Pig ends the twelve-year round on a warm note: generous, sincere and fond of life's pleasures, sharing whatever it has. Its challenge is remembering that not everyone plays as fairly. An Earth Pig saves for the feast; a Fire Pig throws it — the element decides.
To confirm anyone's sign, open the calculator behind this page: it converts a birth date into the animal, the element and yin or yang, using exact Lunar New Year dates from 1924 to 2043. It all runs in your browser; no data 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.