Year of the Rabbit: Meaning and Personality
Find your Chinese zodiac animal, element and yin-yang polarity — with the Lunar New Year boundary handled correctly.
Rabbit
Gentle, tactful and quietly lucky, the Rabbit wins with grace where force fails. Its challenge is saying the uncomfortable thing out loud.
About this tool
Recent Years of the Rabbit are 1999, 2011 and 2023; the next one starts in 2035. A caveat that trips up quick lists: the Chinese year begins at the Lunar New Year, between late January and late February, so a birth in those early weeks of a Rabbit year may still fall under the previous sign, the Tiger.
Tradition describes the Rabbit as gentle, tactful and quietly lucky — the sign that wins with grace where force fails. Its challenge is saying the uncomfortable thing out loud. The element of the year, from Wood to Water, decides how soft or steely that grace turns out.
To get anyone's exact sign, open the calculator behind this page: it reads a birth date against exact Lunar New Year dates from 1924 to 2043 and returns the animal, the element and yin or yang — right in your browser, storing nothing.
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.