Chinese zodiac compatibility chart

Use this chart to compare the traditional year-branch relationships of all twelve Chinese zodiac animals. Find your animal on the left, then follow its row to the other sign. Each cell opens a fuller explanation from the row animal’s perspective. The scores are symmetric, but the conversations they suggest need not be: two people can experience the same situation differently and need different words to explain what matters.

The six combinations, called liùhé or “secret friends,” join Rat with Ox, Tiger with Pig, Rabbit with Dog, Dragon with Rooster, Snake with Monkey, and Horse with Goat. The three-sign harmonies, or trines, are Rat–Dragon–Monkey, Ox–Snake–Rooster, Tiger–Horse–Dog, and Rabbit–Goat–Pig. We assign trines 92 and six combinations 88 as a readable distinction between categories, not as measured probabilities.

Clashes are the six opposing pairs around the branch circle: Rat–Horse, Ox–Goat, Tiger–Monkey, Rabbit–Rooster, Dragon–Dog, and Snake–Pig. Their score is 42. Harms describe subtler symbolic friction and receive 55; the traditional word does not imply that someone intends injury. Same-sign pairs receive 72, and pairs without one of these named relationships receive 68. Every color is accompanied by a label in the legend and a visible number.

A friendship, marriage, and working partnership can draw on the same contrast in different ways. Direct feedback may help a review meeting while needing gentler timing in a private conversation. Choose a concrete topic, such as changing plans or dividing tasks, before applying a label. No cell can measure consent, kindness, safety, commitment, or shared values. Those qualities require attention to the actual people and their behavior.

Check the animal before using the table, especially for a January or February birthday. Popular zodiac labels follow Lunar New Year; a BaZi year pillar changes at Lìchūn. Those boundaries sometimes assign different labels to the same birth date. A complete BaZi comparison would also consider month, day, and hour pillars, which this chart does not use. Treat it as an accessible cultural map and an opening for discussion, rather than a decision about whom to trust or marry.