Year of the Rooster: Meaning and Personality
Find your Chinese zodiac animal, element and yin-yang polarity — with the Lunar New Year boundary handled correctly.
Rooster
Observant, precise and proudly honest, the Rooster notices everything and says most of it. Its challenge is wrapping the truth in a little silk.
About this tool
Recent Years of the Rooster are 2005, 2017 and 2029; the next begins in 2041. Watch the calendar boundary: the Chinese year starts at the Lunar New Year, between late January and late February, so an early-year birth in a Rooster year may still belong to the previous sign, the Monkey.
The Rooster is the perfectionist of the cycle: observant, precise and proudly honest, noticing everything and saying most of it. Its challenge is wrapping the truth in a little silk. The year's element — Fire Rooster, Water Rooster — turns the volume of that honesty up or down.
The calculator behind this page finds the complete sign for any birth date: animal, element and yin or yang, resolved against exact Lunar New Year dates from 1924 to 2043. Everything happens in your browser and nothing is stored.
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.