Water · Yin
Pig
Brings. Genuinely kind and hard to provoke. Gives without keeping a ledger.
Struggles with. Trusts too readily and indulges too easily.
Same sign
Pig and Pig
Same sign
72%
The same animal twice. Immediate understanding and identical blind spots — nobody supplies what the other is missing.
Water · Yin
Pig
Brings. Genuinely kind and hard to provoke. Gives without keeping a ledger.
Struggles with. Trusts too readily and indulges too easily.
Distance on the wheel0 of 12
RelationSame sign
Same fixed elementYes
How Chinese compatibility works
The rule is positional. Animals four apart form an affinity triangle and are read as natural allies — they share instincts and pace. Animals six apart sit directly opposite and are the traditional clash: each values what the other neglects.
This differs from Western astrology, which uses angles on a 360-degree circle. Here the wheel has twelve positions and the relationships are counted in steps, not degrees.
Traditional pairings sometimes override the geometry — a few combinations are named explicitly as friends or enemies in the old texts, and those take precedence.
Computed from 110 years of real lunar new year dates
The arithmetic behind this pairing
Chinese years run 354 or 384 days, so each animal collects a different number of days across the century — the shares below are not 8.33% each.
Positions apart on the cycle
0
Pairings at this distance
12 of 78
Days assigned to Pig
3,306 · 8.3%
Days assigned to Pig
3,306 · 8.3%
Share of all pairings
0.689%
0 positions apart · 12 of 78 pairings share that distance · 0.689% of all pairings. Neither trine nor clash, where most pairings sit.
Possible age gaps — fixed by the cycle
Because the animals sit at fixed positions, two people with these signs can only differ in age by certain numbers of years. Not approximately — exactly these:
12
years apart
24
years apart
36
years apart
Recent birth-year combinations
Metal Pig 2031 & Earth Pig 2019
12 years apart
Earth Pig 2019 & Fire Pig 2007
12 years apart
Earth Pig 2019 & Metal Pig 2031
12 years apart
Fire Pig 2007 & Wood Pig 1995
12 years apart
Fire Pig 2007 & Earth Pig 2019
12 years apart
Wood Pig 1995 & Water Pig 1983
12 years apart
Wood Pig 1995 & Fire Pig 2007
12 years apart
Water Pig 1983 & Metal Pig 1971
12 years apart
The five versions of each animal
The animal repeats every 12 years but the element every 60, so each partner comes in five variants — and the combination you actually have is one of 25.
Wood Pig
1995
Fire Pig
2007
Earth Pig
2019
Metal Pig
2031
Water Pig
1983
Wood Pig
1995
Fire Pig
2007
Earth Pig
2019
Metal Pig
2031
Water Pig
1983
Birth years for this pairing
⚠️ Each year starts at the lunar new year, not 1 January — if either of you was born in January or early February, check the exact date before trusting the animal.
Pig
1971 · 1983 · 1995 · 2007 · 2019 · 2031Pig
1971 · 1983 · 1995 · 2007 · 2019 · 2031