Tiger

1938 Chinese zodiac

虎 Earth Tiger · yang

Born between 31 January 1938 and 18 February 1939: you are a Earth Tiger. Born in 1938 but before 31 January 1938: your sign is that of 1937, the Fire Ox.

The year

  • New Year : 31 January 1938
  • Ends : 18 February 1939
  • Animal : Tiger
  • Element : Earth (yang)

The Earth element

stability, realism, reliability.

Each animal returns every twelve years with a different element: the same pair only comes back every sixty years.

In the sixty-year cycle

戊寅 wù yín

Year 15 of the cycle. The same pair comes back in 1878 and 1998.

The Tiger in one line

Brave and magnetic, it charges where others hesitate.

Tiger: personality, love, work →

Other years of the Tiger

Opposite sign

Dates computed from the real positions of the Sun and Moon (NASA JPL DE440s ephemeris, Beijing time) under the rules of the Chinese calendar, and checked against published dates.