Chinese zodiac 2006
Year of the Fire Dog
29 January 2006 to 17 February 2007
Born in 2006? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 2006 it falls on 29 January 2006.
- 29 January to 31 December 2006
- π Fire Dog
- and on to 17 Feb 2007
Check an exact birth date
The Fire Dog at a glance
Animal
π Dog
Said to be loyal, honest, protective.
Element
η« Yang Fire
Linked with passion and drive. Each element rules two years in a row.
Length
385 days
A long year: the calendar adds a thirteenth, leap month.
Other Dog years
The 60-year cycle
Animal and element line up again only every 60 years. The Fire Dog years nearest to this one are 1946 and 2066.
Who gets on with the Dog
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 Dog 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.