Chinese zodiac 1999
Year of the Earth Rabbit
16 February 1999 to 4 February 2000
Born in 1999? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 1999 it falls on 16 February 1999.
- 16 February to 31 December 1999
- 🐇 Earth Rabbit
- and on to 4 Feb 2000
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The Earth Rabbit at a glance
Animal
🐇 Rabbit
Said to be gentle, elegant, careful.
Element
土 Yin Earth
Linked with stability and patience. Each element rules two years in a row.
Length
354 days
A regular year of twelve lunar months.
Other Rabbit years
The 60-year cycle
Animal and element line up again only every 60 years. The Earth Rabbit years nearest to this one are 1939 and 2059.
Who gets on with the Rabbit
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 Rabbit 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.