Tiger and Dragon

Other pairings for the Tiger

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.

2 positions apart · 12 of 78 pairings share that distance · 1.368% 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:

Recent birth-year combinations

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.