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Chinese Zodiac Calculator
Enter your birth year — discover your zodiac animal, five-element, lucky traits and the ideal characters for your Chinese name.
The 12 Signs
Chinese Zodiac Cycle
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Our generator uses your birth year to balance five-element harmony in every candidate name.
✨ Craft My Chinese Name →Traditionally yes. Naming masters pair your birth-year element with characters whose elements support it — Water feeds Wood, Wood feeds Fire, and so on. Modern practice varies, but the principle is respected.
The Chinese New Year falls between January 21 and February 20 each year. If you were born in that window, enter the year before or after and note that the precise date matters — a professional astrologer checks the exact lunar calendar date.
Every year is associated with one of five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal or Water. These cycle on a 10-year (heavenly-stem) schedule, not the 12-year zodiac cycle — so you get combinations like Wood Rat, Fire Rat, etc.