Chinese Zodiac Compatibility Calculator

The relation between two Year Branches is a checkable fact: Rat and Horse clash in every school of BaZi, Rat and Ox combine, and the chart on this page shows exactly which rule applies to your pair. Whether two people can build a life together is decided by far more than one branch each. Use this page to check the Year Branch rule; a full BaZi comparison adds more layers within the tradition, but it still cannot deliver a verdict on a real relationship.

The Six Harmonies are the classic pairs: Rat–Ox, Tiger–Pig, Rabbit–Dog, Dragon–Rooster, Snake–Monkey and Horse–Goat. The Three Harmonies frames add four groups of three that share an element: Monkey–Rat–Dragon (Water), Pig–Rabbit–Goat (Wood), Tiger–Horse–Dog (Fire) and Snake–Rooster–Ox (Metal). Two members of a frame form a Half-Combination when the pair includes the frame’s peak animal—Rat, Rabbit, Horse or Rooster. Hidden Combinations such as Tiger–Ox, Rabbit–Monkey and Horse–Pig are a quieter form of the same pull.

The Six Clashes are Rat–Horse, Ox–Goat, Tiger–Monkey, Rabbit–Rooster, Dragon–Dog and Snake–Pig. The Six Harms (Rat–Goat, Ox–Horse, Tiger–Snake, Rabbit–Dragon, Monkey–Pig, Rooster–Dog), the Punishments (Tiger–Snake–Monkey, Ox–Goat–Dog, Rat–Rabbit) and the Destructions (Rat–Rooster, Horse–Rabbit, Monkey–Snake, Tiger–Pig, Dragon–Ox, Dog–Goat) are the other tension relations. A clash describes friction and movement in the year element; plenty of lasting marriages carry one, because the Day Pillars and the rest of the charts carry the greater weight.

Your animal follows the Year Pillar, and the Year Pillar changes at Lichun (Start of Spring), on February 3, 4 or 5 depending on the year. Born before that moment, you belong to the previous year’s animal; born after it, to the new one. Chinese New Year moves between late January and mid-February and marks the lunar year rather than the pillar. Run your date through the calculator above: it shows the exact Lichun moment for your year and which side of it you fall on.

This page compares one branch from each person: the Year Branch. A BaZi marriage reading compares both complete Four Pillars charts—Heavenly Stem combinations, the two Day Pillars and spouse palaces, the Month Branches and the Da Yun cycles—and then interprets the whole picture. The zodiac check is the first layer; the marriage reading is where the answer about two specific people is worked out.

Yes. The branch relations are the same whoever the two people are: a Six Clash between a mother and a child is the same rule as a Six Clash between two partners, and the chart applies to any pair. What changes with the role is the reading of the full charts, which is why the relationship analysis hub offers separate readings for couples, parents and children, friends and colleagues.

A BaZi compatibility reading includes more information than a zodiac check, but it remains one traditional interpretive lens. A chart cannot verify character, responsibility, shared values or lived experience, and it does not replace counselling, legal advice or other professional guidance. The people involved should decide whether to date, marry or separate from their real relationship and circumstances.