Ox 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 Ox is the backbone of the zodiac — strong, reliable, and endlessly patient. You achieve greatness not through flash but through sheer determination and consistency. When the world is in chaos, people turn to the Ox because you never, ever quit.

Strengths

Dependable, strong, determined, patient, methodical, honest

Challenges

Stubborn, rigid, slow to adapt, poor communicator, overly cautious

Best matches

Rat, Snake, Rooster

Birth years

1937 (from 11 Feb), 1949 (from 29 Jan), 1961 (from 15 Feb), 1973 (from 3 Feb), 1985 (from 20 Feb), 1997 (from 7 Feb), 2009 (from 26 Jan), 2021 (from 12 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

1, 4

Lucky colours

White, yellow, green

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The other eleven animals

RatTigerRabbitDragonSnakeHorseGoatMonkeyRoosterDogPig