How to use this tool
Enter a Gregorian birth date from 1900 to 2100. The result uses the Chinese lunar-calendar year beginning at Lunar New Year. It is a year-animal tool, not a complete BaZi chart.
✧ A YEAR WITH ITS OWN CHARACTER
Chinese zodiac calculator
Find your Chinese zodiac animal and year element using the Lunar New Year boundary—not January 1.
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A FIELD GUIDE
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What the result means
The twelve animals repeat every twelve lunar years. The five elements shown here come from the year’s heavenly stem, forming a sixty-year cycle with the animals. Different traditions may use Start of Spring; this tool explicitly uses Lunar New Year.
How we calculate
The lunar calendar is calculated with the MIT-licensed lunar-javascript library. We use Lunar New Year to determine the year animal and the heavenly stem to determine its element.
Read the methods, limits and sources →Questions you might have
What is my Chinese zodiac if I was born in January?
Check the actual Lunar New Year date for that year. A January birth is often still part of the previous lunar year.
Is the year element my complete Five Elements profile?
No. A full BaZi interpretation uses additional calendar pillars and a different set of conventions. This tool only reports the year animal and year-stem element.