Wood · Yin
Rabbit
Brings. Keeps the peace intelligently and notices what everyone needs before it is said.
Struggles with. Avoids confrontation past the point of usefulness, and withdraws instead of arguing.
Same sign
Rabbit and Rabbit
Same sign
72%
The same animal twice. Immediate understanding and identical blind spots — nobody supplies what the other is missing.
Wood · Yin
Rabbit
Brings. Keeps the peace intelligently and notices what everyone needs before it is said.
Struggles with. Avoids confrontation past the point of usefulness, and withdraws instead of arguing.
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 Rabbit
3,278 · 8.23%
Days assigned to Rabbit
3,278 · 8.23%
Share of all pairings
0.677%
0 positions apart · 12 of 78 pairings share that distance · 0.677% 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
Water Rabbit 2023 & Metal Rabbit 2011
12 years apart
Metal Rabbit 2011 & Earth Rabbit 1999
12 years apart
Metal Rabbit 2011 & Water Rabbit 2023
12 years apart
Earth Rabbit 1999 & Fire Rabbit 1987
12 years apart
Earth Rabbit 1999 & Metal Rabbit 2011
12 years apart
Fire Rabbit 1987 & Wood Rabbit 1975
12 years apart
Fire Rabbit 1987 & Earth Rabbit 1999
12 years apart
Wood Rabbit 1975 & Water Rabbit 1963
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.
Fire Rabbit
1987
Earth Rabbit
1999
Metal Rabbit
2011
Water Rabbit
2023
Wood Rabbit
1975
Fire Rabbit
1987
Earth Rabbit
1999
Metal Rabbit
2011
Water Rabbit
2023
Wood Rabbit
1975
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.
Rabbit
1963 · 1975 · 1987 · 1999 · 2011 · 2023Rabbit
1963 · 1975 · 1987 · 1999 · 2011 · 2023