3 September 2026

12 Chinese Zodiac Signs

huǒ · 火 · one of the Five Phases

Fire in the Chinese Zodiac

Fire follows Wood in the generating cycle. It feeds Earth, regulates Metal, and appears in zodiac year names through the Bing and Ding heavenly stems.

火

One element, several result coordinates

Fire at a glance

In a complete zodiac result, Fire may belong to the year's heavenly stem, the animal's fixed earthly-branch coordinate, the day master, or the separate Na Yin association. The label should always be read with that position.

Chinese
火
Pinyin
huǒ
Generates
Earth
Controls
Metal

Its place in both cycles

How Fire moves

Generating and controlling are directional relationships. Neither one is a compatibility score by itself.

The year-name coordinate

The two Fire heavenly stems

A year-stem element always has a Yin or Yang form. These are the two stems that make Fire appear in a complete year name.

A separate branch coordinate

Animals with fixed Fire

These animal branches carry Fire in every occurrence. Their year-stem element still changes through all five phases.

Snake巳Summer · SSEHorse午Summer · S

The element across all twelve animals

Every Fire animal year type

The stem element repeats for two consecutive years, then moves on. Across sixty years, Fire meets every animal exactly once.

  1. 丙子Fire RatYang · Bing Zi
  2. 丁丑Fire OxYin · Ding Chou
  3. 丙寅Fire TigerYang · Bing Yin
  4. 丁卯Fire RabbitYin · Ding Mao
  5. 丙辰Fire DragonYang · Bing Chen
  6. 丁巳Fire SnakeYin · Ding Si
  7. 丙午Fire HorseYang · Bing Wu
  8. 丁未Fire GoatYin · Ding Wei
  9. 丙申Fire MonkeyYang · Bing Shen
  10. 丁酉Fire RoosterYin · Ding You
  11. 丙戌Fire DogYang · Bing Xu
  12. 丁亥Fire PigYin · Ding Hai

Exact calendar records

Recent and upcoming Fire years

Each year opens at Chinese New Year, not 1 January.