Year of the Pig
Traditionally associated with plenty, generosity, and completion.
- Earthly Branch
- 亥 · hài
- Sequence position
- 12 of 12
- Traditional association
- The Pig closes the animal sequence before it returns to Rat. Boar and Pig both occur in English-language references.
Cycle years
- 1935
- 1947
- 1959
- 1971
- 1983
- 1995
- 2007
- 2019
- 2031
- 2043
These labels name the lunisolar year that begins during the listed Gregorian year. January and early-February births may belong to the preceding animal.
What this does—and does not—tell you
The annual animal is one calendar layer. A fuller Chinese astrology reading may also consider the Heavenly Stem and element, month, day, and hour. A year animal alone cannot determine a personality or predict an outcome.
All twelve animal years
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