Dog Chinese Zodiac

Personality, strengths, compatibility and birth years

The Chinese zodiac assigns each year one of twelve animals on a repeating cycle, set by your birth year rather than your birth date. The animal describes temperament and the company you keep easily — it is a separate system from Western star signs, and the two rarely say the same thing.

Personality

The Dog is the zodiac's most loyal soul — honest, faithful, and driven by a deep sense of justice. You are the friend everyone wishes they had: reliable, protective, and genuinely selfless. Dogs will sacrifice their own comfort to help someone in need.

Strengths

Loyal, honest, amiable, kind, cautious, prudent, faithful

Challenges

Anxious, pessimistic, stubborn, emotionally distant, judgmental

Best matches

Rabbit, Tiger, Horse

Birth years

1946 (from 2 Feb), 1958 (from 18 Feb), 1970 (from 6 Feb), 1982 (from 25 Jan), 1994 (from 10 Feb), 2006 (from 29 Jan), 2018 (from 16 Feb), 2030 (from 3 Feb).

A Chinese year begins at Chinese New Year, not on 1 January, so the dates above are where each year actually starts. Born before that date and you belong to the previous year's animal — Aethera works this out from your full birth date.

Lucky numbers

3, 4, 9

Lucky colours

Red, green, purple

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The other eleven animals

RatOxTigerRabbitDragonSnakeHorseGoatMonkeyRoosterPig