Chinese zodiac 1938
Year of the Earth Tiger
31 January 1938 to 18 February 1939
Born in 1938? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 1938 it falls on 31 January 1938.
- 31 January to 31 December 1938
- 🐅 Earth Tiger
- and on to 18 Feb 1939
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The Earth Tiger at a glance
Animal
🐅 Tiger
Said to be bold, confident, competitive.
Element
土 Yang Earth
Linked with stability and patience. Each element rules two years in a row.
Length
384 days
A long year: the calendar adds a thirteenth, leap month.
Other Tiger years
The 60-year cycle
Animal and element line up again only every 60 years. The Earth Tiger years nearest to this one are 1878 and 1998.
Who gets on with the Tiger
Allies
Four years apart. The three animals of a trine are said to share a temperament.
Secret friend
One of six fixed pairs said to complement each other.
Opposite
Six years apart, directly across the wheel. Tradition calls this the hardest pairing.
Friction
One of six fixed pairs said to rub each other the wrong way.
Bonds come from each animal's position among the twelve, as tradition sets them. They describe the Tiger sign in general, not any one person.
Dates are computed estimates from the Hong Kong Observatory's calendar tables, counted in China's time zone. Some traditions change the animal at the start of spring (around 4 February) instead of at Lunar New Year.