Year of the Tiger: Meaning and Personality
Find your Chinese zodiac animal, element and yin-yang polarity — with the Lunar New Year boundary handled correctly.
Tiger
Brave, magnetic and born to lead, the Tiger takes risks others only discuss. Its challenge is patience — not every hill needs charging today.
About this tool
Recent Years of the Tiger are 1998, 2010 and 2022, with the next due in 2034. Mind the calendar's fine print: each Chinese year opens at the Lunar New Year, between late January and late February, so an early-year birth in a Tiger year may really belong to the sign before it, the Ox.
The Tiger is the cycle's daredevil: brave, magnetic and born to lead, taking risks others only discuss. Its lesson is patience — not every hill needs charging today. Whether the year makes it a Wood, Fire or Water Tiger tilts that boldness in different directions.
Curious about your own full sign? The calculator behind this page finds the animal, element and yin-yang polarity for any birth date, using exact Lunar New Year dates from 1924 to 2043 — all computed locally in your browser.
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.