Rabbit 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 Rabbit is the zodiac's quiet strategist — elegant, perceptive, and surprisingly powerful. You navigate life with grace, preferring diplomacy to confrontation. Beneath your calm exterior lies a sharp mind that misses nothing.

Strengths

Gentle, elegant, alert, quick, skillful, kind, patient, responsible

Challenges

Timid, overly cautious, superficial, conservative, escapist

Best matches

Goat, Pig, Dog

Birth years

1939 (from 19 Feb), 1951 (from 6 Feb), 1963 (from 25 Jan), 1975 (from 11 Feb), 1987 (from 29 Jan), 1999 (from 16 Feb), 2011 (from 3 Feb), 2023 (from 22 Jan).

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, 6

Lucky colours

Red, pink, purple, blue

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The other eleven animals

RatOxTigerDragonSnakeHorseGoatMonkeyRoosterDogPig