Chinese zodiac 1974
Year of the Wood Tiger
23 January 1974 to 10 February 1975
Born in 1974? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 1974 it falls on 23 January 1974.
- 23 January to 31 December 1974
- 🐅 Wood Tiger
- and on to 10 Feb 1975
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The Wood Tiger at a glance
Animal
🐅 Tiger
Said to be bold, confident, competitive.
Element
木 Yang Wood
Linked with growth and generosity. 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 Wood Tiger years nearest to this one are 1914 and 2034.
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.