Check every traditional year-branch relationship for the Monkey: Six Harmony, Three Harmony, clash, harm, punishment, and destruction.
Six Harmony identifies one partner, while Three Harmony forms a group. The Monkey pairs in Six Harmony with the Snake, and shares a Three Harmony group with the Rat and Dragon.
The Monkey has one or more tension relationships with the Tiger, Pig, and Snake. Each rule describes a different interaction and should be read separately.
One pair can carry several relationships at once. This list keeps every applicable rule visible.
Monkey × Rat
Year-branch relationships
Half-Combination
Monkey × Ox
Year-branch relationships
No direct harmony or tension rule
Monkey × Tiger
Year-branch relationships
Six Clashes · Punishment
Monkey × Rabbit
Year-branch relationships
Hidden Combination
Monkey × Dragon
Year-branch relationships
Same Three Harmony group
Monkey × Snake
Year-branch relationships
Six Harmonies · Punishment · Destruction
Monkey × Horse
Year-branch relationships
No direct harmony or tension rule
Monkey × Goat
Year-branch relationships
No direct harmony or tension rule
Monkey × Monkey
Year-branch relationships
Same Branch
Monkey × Rooster
Year-branch relationships
No direct harmony or tension rule
Monkey × Dog
Year-branch relationships
No direct harmony or tension rule
Monkey × Pig
Year-branch relationships
Six Harms
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The overview above covers the Monkey with all twelve signs. Choose your own sign below to see every match and clash; switch to the two-person tab when you want to compare a specific pair.
01 · Understand the check
Zodiac compatibility vs. BaZi marriage compatibility
Zodiac compatibility reads the Year Branches. A full BaZi match also compares both month, day and hour pillars and luck cycles.
Popular compatibility advice compresses several year-branch rules into two labels. Reading harmony, clash, harm, punishment, and destruction separately shows which relationship actually applies.
Half-Combinations require the peak branch of a Three Harmonies frame (Rat, Rabbit, Horse or Rooster). Tiger–Dog, Pig–Goat, Snake–Ox and Monkey–Dragon lack that peak; the chart labels them as members of one frame without calling them Half-Combinations. A pair can carry several relations at once.
02 · The year boundary
Three births between Chinese New Year and Lichun
| 1985-02-10 | Rat — Chinese New Year 1985 fell on February 20, so the calendar still reads Rat | Ox (Yi Chou 乙丑) — Lichun arrived on February 4 at 05:11, so the Ox year had already begun |
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| 2016-02-05 | Goat — Chinese New Year 2016 fell on February 8, so the calendar still reads Goat | Monkey (Bing Shen 丙申) — Lichun arrived on February 4 at 17:46, so the Monkey year had already begun |
| 2025-02-01 | Snake — Chinese New Year 2025 fell on January 29, so the calendar already reads Snake | Dragon (Jia Chen 甲辰) — Lichun arrived on February 3 at 22:10, so the Dragon year was still running |
This calculator uses the exact local minute of Lichun. Births on that day also need a birth time.
Choose one or two signs for an immediate lookup. Birth dates can verify the signs at the Lichun year boundary.
The one-person view lists all twelve pairings. The two-person view compares two signs directly, without requiring birth dates first.
For January or February births, enter the dates to check the signs against the exact minute of Lichun. Births on Lichun itself also need a time.
The two branches are checked against the Six Harmonies, Half-Combinations, Hidden Combinations, Six Clashes, Six Harms, Punishments, Self-Punishments and Destructions. All matching relations are listed—a pair can combine and clash at the same time.
The result names the relation and what the rule says about it. It does not rank the pair. When the year-level picture is clear, the next step is the full chart comparison, where the other three pillars enter the reading.
Zodiac compatibility reads Year Branches, BaZi matching reads both charts, and interpretation brings the facts back to real life.
01 · Year Branch
Check the combinations, clashes, harms, punishments and destructions between two branches.
02 · Four Pillars
Compare both Day Pillars, Month Branches, Heavenly Stems and luck cycles.
03 · AI interpretation
Turn calculated chart facts into explanations about communication, expectations and timing.
A year-branch relation is a verified fact about two pillars. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a judgement of two people.
In Six Harmony, the Monkey pairs with the Snake. In Three Harmony, the Monkey shares a group with the Rat and Dragon. These are separate traditional relationship systems.
The Monkey has clash, harm, punishment, or destruction relationships with the Tiger, Pig, and Snake. Open each pair to see which specific rule applies.
A zodiac sign represents only the birth-year branch, one of the Four Pillars. A marriage reading also considers both people’s month, day, and hour pillars and their luck cycles.
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.
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.
Every relation on this page comes from a published rule. Read the rules, then compare two complete charts when you are ready.
This service is for entertainment purposes only. Important decisions should combine personal knowledge accumulation, life experiences, and professional advice for comprehensive consideration.
