Wood · Yang
Tiger
Brings. Acts when others hesitate, and inspires people to follow without asking them to.
Struggles with. Burns hot and short. Authority provokes rather than restrains it.
Traditional ally
Tiger and Pig
Traditional ally
88%
Three apart, in the tense square relation. Productive but rarely restful.
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 wheel3 of 12
RelationTraditional ally
Same fixed elementNo
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
3
Pairings at this distance
12 of 78
Days assigned to Tiger
3,277 · 8.23%
Days assigned to Pig
3,306 · 8.3%
Share of all pairings
1.366%
3 positions apart · 12 of 78 pairings share that distance · 1.366% 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:
3
years apart
9
years apart
15
years apart
21
years apart
27
years apart
33
years apart
39
years apart
45
years apart
Recent birth-year combinations
Water Tiger 2022 & Earth Pig 2019
3 years apart
Water Tiger 2022 & Metal Pig 2031
9 years apart
Metal Tiger 2010 & Fire Pig 2007
3 years apart
Metal Tiger 2010 & Earth Pig 2019
9 years apart
Earth Tiger 1998 & Wood Pig 1995
3 years apart
Earth Tiger 1998 & Fire Pig 2007
9 years apart
Fire Tiger 1986 & Water Pig 1983
3 years apart
Fire Tiger 1986 & Wood Pig 1995
9 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 Tiger
1986
Earth Tiger
1998
Metal Tiger
2010
Water Tiger
2022
Wood Tiger
1974
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.
Tiger
1962 · 1974 · 1986 · 1998 · 2010 · 2022Pig
1971 · 1983 · 1995 · 2007 · 2019 · 2031