zodiac animals
Chinese calendar beasts
The zodiac animals are the twelve creatures of the Chinese zodiac, each governing a year in a repeating twelve-year cycle: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
People born in a given year are said to share traits with that year's animal: I'm a dragon—we're supposed to be ambitious.
- ratRodent or informer
- rabbitLong-eared lagomorph
- oxCastrated male cattle
- snakeLimbless scaled reptile
- tigerLarge striped Asian feline
goat · rooster · pig · monkey · horse · dog · dragon · fortune · fortune telling · lunar calendar · birth year · luck · loyalty · diligence · destiny · tradition · prosperity · yin-yang
- Chinese cultureConfucianism, Chinese calligraphy, Beijing, Chinese New Year, Daoism
- East Asian Culturechopsticks, yin and yang, tea ceremony, origami, qi
- Lunar New Yearred envelopes, lion dance, dragon dance, firecrackers, lanterns
- Asian customsbowing, chopsticks, tea ceremony, red envelopes, filial piety
- animal symbolismdragon imagery, thunderbird, Anubis, Ganesha, Ganesh
- Asian astrologytiger, rat, goat, monkey, rooster
zodiacal system type
zodiac animalsstar signs
Astrological birth categories
sun signs · astrological signs · Aries · Taurus · Gemini