Chinese zodiac 2004
Year of the Wood Monkey
22 January 2004 to 8 February 2005
Born in 2004? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 2004 it falls on 22 January 2004.
- 22 January to 31 December 2004
- 🐒 Wood Monkey
- and on to 8 Feb 2005
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The Wood Monkey at a glance
Animal
🐒 Monkey
Said to be clever, curious, playful.
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 Monkey years
The 60-year cycle
Animal and element line up again only every 60 years. The Wood Monkey years nearest to this one are 1944 and 2064.
Who gets on with the Monkey
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 Monkey 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.