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Who matches the Pig — and who may clash?

Check every traditional year-branch relationship for the Pig: Six Harmony, Three Harmony, clash, harm, punishment, and destruction.

Pig compatibility at a glance

Common matches

TigerSix Harmony
RabbitSame Three Harmony group
GoatSame Three Harmony group
Pig

Common mismatches

SnakeSix Clashes
MonkeySix Harms
PigSelf-Punishment
TigerDestruction

How to read this

Six Harmony identifies one partner, while Three Harmony forms a group. The Pig pairs in Six Harmony with the Tiger, and shares a Three Harmony group with the Rabbit and Goat.

The Pig has one or more tension relationships with the Snake, Monkey, Pig, and Tiger. Each rule describes a different interaction and should be read separately.

The Pig with all twelve signs

One pair can carry several relationships at once. This list keeps every applicable rule visible.

Pig × Rat

Year-branch relationships

No direct harmony or tension rule

Pig × Ox

Year-branch relationships

No direct harmony or tension rule

Pig × Tiger

Year-branch relationships

Six Harmonies · Destruction

Pig × Rabbit

Year-branch relationships

Half-Combination

Pig × Dragon

Year-branch relationships

No direct harmony or tension rule

Pig × Snake

Year-branch relationships

Six Clashes

Pig × Horse

Year-branch relationships

Hidden Combination

Pig × Goat

Year-branch relationships

Same Three Harmony group

Pig × Monkey

Year-branch relationships

Six Harms

Pig × Rooster

Year-branch relationships

No direct harmony or tension rule

Pig × Dog

Year-branch relationships

No direct harmony or tension rule

Pig × Pig

Year-branch relationships

Same Branch · Self-Punishment

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Continue: find your matches and clashes

The overview above covers the Pig 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.

What is your zodiac sign?

01 · Understand the check

What does a Chinese zodiac compatibility check compare?

01

Compare the two Year Branches

  • Each zodiac animal is the Earthly Branch of a person’s Year Pillar.
  • The check covers Six Harmony, Three Harmonies, Hidden Combination, clashes, harms, punishments and destructions.
  • A pair can carry more than one relationship at the same time.
02

Read it as one layer of the chart

  • The zodiac year is verified at Lichun before the rules are applied.
  • The result has no compatibility score and does not decide a marriage by itself.
  • A full BaZi match also compares both month, day and hour pillars and luck cycles.

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.

What do “compatible” and “incompatible” include?

Popular compatibility advice compresses several year-branch rules into two labels. Reading harmony, clash, harm, punishment, and destruction separately shows which relationship actually applies.

Common matches

01
Six Harmonies
The six paired branches that combine: Rat–Ox, Tiger–Pig, Rabbit–Dog, Dragon–Rooster, Snake–Monkey and Horse–Goat. Each pair leans toward a transformed element—Rat–Ox toward Earth, Tiger–Pig toward Wood, Rabbit–Dog toward Fire, Dragon–Rooster toward Metal, Snake–Monkey toward Water, Horse–Goat toward Earth. Read a Six Harmony as a pull toward each other.
02
Half-Combination
Two members of a Three Harmonies frame: Monkey–Rat–Dragon (Water), Pig–Rabbit–Goat (Wood), Tiger–Horse–Dog (Fire) and Snake–Rooster–Ox (Metal). This page marks a Half-Combination only when the pair includes the frame’s peak branch—Rat, Rabbit, Horse or Rooster. An end-to-end pair such as Tiger–Dog or Pig–Goat is the frame with its peak missing and is left unmarked here.
03
Hidden Combination
The principal hidden stems of the two branches form a Five Combination of Heavenly Stems—Tiger–Ox, Rabbit–Monkey and Horse–Pig are examples. Quieter than an open combination: a tie that is felt more than shown.

Common mismatches

01
Six Clashes
Branches that sit directly opposite each other on the wheel: Rat–Horse, Ox–Goat, Tiger–Monkey, Rabbit–Rooster, Dragon–Dog and Snake–Pig. A clash means movement and friction in the year element. It is a relation to interpret, never a sentence of separation on its own.
02
Six Harms
Rat–Goat, Ox–Horse, Tiger–Snake, Rabbit–Dragon, Monkey–Pig and Rooster–Dog. A harm forms where one branch clashes with the Six Harmony partner of the other, so it reads as a quiet drain or a friendship spoiled from the side rather than an open fight.
03
Punishment
Three groups: Tiger–Snake–Monkey, the punishment of ingratitude; Ox–Goat–Dog, the punishment of bullying; and Rat–Rabbit, the punishment of rudeness. Any two members of a group form a punishment—strain that builds from within a relationship rather than from head-on opposition.
04
Destruction
Rat–Rooster, Horse–Rabbit, Monkey–Snake, Tiger–Pig, Dragon–Ox and Dog–Goat. The lightest of the tension relations; it points to wear, small losses and unfinished business rather than open conflict.
05
Self-Punishment
Dragon, Horse, Rooster and Pig punish their own kind, so two Dragons or two Pigs carry a Self-Punishment alongside the same-branch fact. The other eight animals meeting themselves are simply a same-branch pair.
Same Branch
Both people share a Year Branch. It is a plain fact rather than a good or bad sign: two Rats share a year element and a year rhythm, and nothing further is claimed from that alone.

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

Your zodiac year begins at Lichun, the Start of Spring

  • 01BaZi changes years at Lichun, and the zodiac animal changes with the Year Pillar.
  • 02Lichun falls around February 3–5; Chinese New Year moves each year.
  • 03Births between the two boundaries can receive different zodiac animals under each method.

Three births between Chinese New Year and Lichun

1985-02-10Rat — Chinese New Year 1985 fell on February 20, so the calendar still reads RatOx (Yi Chou 乙丑) — Lichun arrived on February 4 at 05:11, so the Ox year had already begun
2016-02-05Goat — Chinese New Year 2016 fell on February 8, so the calendar still reads GoatMonkey (Bing Shen 丙申) — Lichun arrived on February 4 at 17:46, so the Monkey year had already begun
2025-02-01Snake — Chinese New Year 2025 fell on January 29, so the calendar already reads SnakeDragon (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.

How the check is built

Choose one or two signs for an immediate lookup. Birth dates can verify the signs at the Lichun year boundary.

  1. 01

    Choose one or two zodiac signs

    The one-person view lists all twelve pairings. The two-person view compares two signs directly, without requiring birth dates first.

  2. 02

    Verify Year Pillars by birth date when needed

    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.

  3. 03

    Look up every relation between the two branches

    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.

  4. 04

    Read the result as a fact sheet

    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.

Three layers, from Year Branches to full charts

Zodiac compatibility reads Year Branches, BaZi matching reads both charts, and interpretation brings the facts back to real life.

  1. 01 · Year Branch

    Zodiac compatibility

    Check the combinations, clashes, harms, punishments and destructions between two branches.

  2. 02 · Four Pillars

    BaZi marriage compatibility

    Compare both Day Pillars, Month Branches, Heavenly Stems and luck cycles.

  3. 03 · AI interpretation

    Back to the real relationship

    Turn calculated chart facts into explanations about communication, expectations and timing.

What this check does not do

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.

  • It does not decide whether two people should marry, stay together or part
  • It does not turn a Six Clash or a Punishment into a prediction of divorce, harm or loss
  • It does not read the Day Pillars, Month Branches, Heavenly Stems or Da Yun—those belong to the full BaZi marriage reading
  • It does not replace counselling, legal advice or the judgement of the two people involved

Pig compatibility questions

Which signs are most compatible with the Pig?

In Six Harmony, the Pig pairs with the Tiger. In Three Harmony, the Pig shares a group with the Rabbit and Goat. These are separate traditional relationship systems.

Which signs conflict with the Pig?

The Pig has clash, harm, punishment, or destruction relationships with the Snake, Monkey, Pig, and Tiger. Open each pair to see which specific rule applies.

Does a zodiac clash mean the couple should not marry?

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.

Chinese zodiac compatibility FAQ

Is Chinese zodiac compatibility accurate?

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.

I was born in January or February—which animal am I?

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.

How is this different from a BaZi marriage compatibility reading?

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.

Can I use this for parent and child, friends or business partners?

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.

Can a BaZi compatibility reading decide whether two people should be together?

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.

Check the rules, then go deeper

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.