Chinese Zodiac

Year of the Pig 猪

Warm, sincere, and more generous than it is given credit for.

The Pig, last of the twelve, leads with an open heart. People born in Pig years tend to be warm, sincere, and easygoing, taking people at face value and giving generously — a good-natured trust that others sometimes underestimate.

Years of the Pig

Recent and upcoming Pig years are 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019, 2031, 2043. One catch worth knowing: the Chinese zodiac year doesn't begin on January 1st — it starts at the lunar new year, in late January or February. If you were born in January or early February, check the exact cutoff for your year before you count yourself a Pig.

Pig personality

Kind, honest, and genuinely generous. A Pig makes people feel welcome and rarely keeps score, which builds deep, lasting bonds.

Trust given too freely can be taken advantage of — a Pig may overlook a warning sign it didn't want to see, or give past the point of its own good.

Pig compatibility

Pig is warmest with the gentle Rabbit and creative Goat, who return its openness. The strain with Snake, its opposite, is candor meeting a sign that keeps its cards close.

In the zodiac's structure, the Pig sits in a trine group (三合) with Rabbit and Goat — signs that tend to share its pace — and directly opposite Snake, its clash pair (六冲). A clash isn't a verdict, though: it usually means two people reaching the same goal by opposite routes.

Beyond the year

Your animal sign comes from your birth year alone — the coarsest layer of a Chinese chart. Its fixed element is Water, but a full BaZi (八字) reading adds your month, day, and hour, which is where most of your actual character shows up. Two Pig people born years apart can be very different once the rest of the chart is drawn.