Chinese Zodiac

Year of the Rabbit 兔

Gentle, diplomatic, and quietly hard to rattle.

The Rabbit prefers to smooth a path rather than force one. People born in Rabbit years tend to be tactful and observant, defusing conflict before it escalates and noticing the small things that keep relationships intact.

Years of the Rabbit

Recent and upcoming Rabbit years are 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023, 2035. 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 Rabbit.

Rabbit personality

Diplomatic, considerate, and calm under social pressure. A Rabbit is the one who keeps a room comfortable and a partnership from fraying.

Conflict-avoidance is the cost — a Rabbit can withdraw rather than confront, and keep the peace at the expense of saying the hard thing that actually needed saying.

Rabbit compatibility

Rabbit is most at ease with the gentle Goat and the warm Pig, and finds stability with the steady Dog. The friction with Rooster, its opposite, comes down to bluntness meeting a sign that flinches from it.

In the zodiac's structure, the Rabbit sits in a trine group (三合) with Goat and Pig — signs that tend to share its pace — and directly opposite Rooster, 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 Wood, but a full BaZi (八字) reading adds your month, day, and hour, which is where most of your actual character shows up. Two Rabbit people born years apart can be very different once the rest of the chart is drawn.