2023 Chinese zodiac
兔 Water Rabbit · yin
Born between 22 January 2023 and 9 February 2024: you are a Water Rabbit. Born in 2023 but before 22 January 2023: your sign is that of 2022, the Water Tiger.
The year
- New Year : 22 January 2023
- Ends : 9 February 2024
- Animal : Rabbit
- Element : Water (yin)
The Water element
intuition, flexibility, depth.
Each animal returns every twelve years with a different element: the same pair only comes back every sixty years.
In the sixty-year cycle
癸卯 guǐ mǎo
Year 40 of the cycle. The same pair comes back in 1963 and 2083.
The Rabbit in one line
Gentle and diplomatic, it prefers harmony to conflict.
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.