Rabbit in 2026
2026 is a Horse year. Rabbit and Horse occupy branches 卯 and 午.
This pair has no shared harmony, trine, seasonal meeting or Six Clash in the four groups shown here.
Read Rabbit with Horse →Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water Rabbit
Wood Rabbit
Years: 1915, 1975, 2035.
Wood repeats the Rabbit's own element, strengthening the traditional association with gentle growth and attention to relationships as they develop. The Wood Rabbit reading emphasizes encouragement, shared interests and care over how a request is made, with hesitation when preserving agreement requires stating a different personal view.
Wood Rabbit birth dates and next year →Fire Rabbit
Years: 1927, 1987, 2047.
The Rabbit's Wood generates Fire, giving its traditional tact a warmer and more visible means of expression. In this reading, the Fire Rabbit brings people together through enthusiasm, hospitality or an expressive idea, while remaining sensitive to whether that invitation receives the response it was meant to encourage.
Fire Rabbit birth dates and next year →Earth Rabbit
Years: 1939, 1999.
The Rabbit's Wood controls Earth, placing its preference for gentle adjustment beside the year element's attachment to stable arrangements. The Earth Rabbit reading emphasizes a carefully maintained home, measured commitments and practical consideration, with a tendency to protect a settled peace even when a direct conversation is needed.
Earth Rabbit birth dates and next year →Metal Rabbit
Years: 1951, 2011.
Metal controls the Rabbit's Wood, introducing definition and firmer boundaries into the traditional portrait of a tactful, accommodating character. This reading gives the Metal Rabbit a clear private standard beneath its courteous manner, attentive to the quality of an agreement and less willing to accept an insensitive approach.
Metal Rabbit birth dates and next year →Water Rabbit
Years: 1903, 1963, 2023.
Water feeds the Rabbit's Wood, supporting the sign's traditional sensitivity and capacity to notice what helps a relationship grow. The Water Rabbit reading puts listening and subtle expression at the centre, with a readiness to adjust to other people and a tendency to absorb a room's unresolved tension.
Water Rabbit birth dates and next year →Rabbit personality traits
The Rabbit is traditionally associated with tact, attentive observation and a preference for a peaceful setting. It reads a room before entering a disagreement and often finds a way to express a difficult point gently. Sensitivity also makes prolonged tension hard to bear, so an uncomfortable decision can be postponed. The strength of this character lies in preserving consideration without losing sight of what still needs to be said.
Rabbit: best and difficult matches
Goat: Rabbit and Goat share the Wood trine; Pig completes their three-animal group.
Rooster: Rabbit (卯) stands six positions opposite Rooster (酉), the contrast called a Six Clash in the traditional pairing.
Dog: Rabbit (卯) and Dog (戌) form one of the six fixed harmony pairs, traditionally read as a complementary connection.
Pig: Rabbit and Pig share the Wood trine; Goat completes their three-animal group.
All twelve Rabbit compatibility pairings →Five forms · one twelve-day rhythm
The next Rabbit days
The branch repeats every twelve days. Its stem advances too, so these five occurrences have five different stem elements before the complete name repeats after sixty days. The Rabbit branch itself keeps Wood.
Yin Metal
14 September 2026
Yin Metal Rabbit · 辛卯
Na Yin: Pine and Cypress Wood · 松柏木
Open this date’s planning window →Yin Water
26 September 2026
Yin Water Rabbit · 癸卯
Na Yin: Gold-leaf Metal · 金箔金
Open this date’s planning window →Yin Wood
8 October 2026
Yin Wood Rabbit · 乙卯
Na Yin: Great Stream Water · 大溪水
Open this date’s planning window →Yin Fire
20 October 2026
Yin Fire Rabbit · 丁卯
Na Yin: Furnace Fire · 炉中火
Open this date’s planning window →Yin Earth
1 November 2026
Yin Earth Rabbit · 己卯
Na Yin: City-wall Earth · 城头土
Open this date’s planning window →
The Na Yin name belongs to the complete pillar. It is a separate pairing from the stem’s element and the branch’s fixed element.
Chinese New Year to the final lunar day
Rabbit years and their exact boundaries
Use the interval, not just the Gregorian year number, for a birthday near January or February. A full Rabbit element-name returns sixty years later; the animal alone returns after twelve.
癸卯 · Yin Water Rabbit
1903 Rabbit year
29 January 1903 through 15 February 1904
乙卯 · Yin Wood Rabbit
1915 Rabbit year
14 February 1915 through 2 February 1916
丁卯 · Yin Fire Rabbit
1927 Rabbit year
2 February 1927 through 22 January 1928
己卯 · Yin Earth Rabbit
1939 Rabbit year
19 February 1939 through 7 February 1940
辛卯 · Yin Metal Rabbit
1951 Rabbit year
6 February 1951 through 26 January 1952
癸卯 · Yin Water Rabbit
1963 Rabbit year
25 January 1963 through 12 February 1964
乙卯 · Yin Wood Rabbit
1975 Rabbit year
11 February 1975 through 30 January 1976
丁卯 · Yin Fire Rabbit
1987 Rabbit year
29 January 1987 through 16 February 1988
己卯 · Yin Earth Rabbit
1999 Rabbit year
16 February 1999 through 4 February 2000
辛卯 · Yin Metal Rabbit
2011 Rabbit year
3 February 2011 through 22 January 2012
癸卯 · Yin Water Rabbit
2023 Rabbit year
22 January 2023 through 9 February 2024
乙卯 · Yin Wood Rabbit
2035 Rabbit year
8 February 2035 through 27 January 2036
丁卯 · Yin Fire Rabbit
2047 Rabbit year
26 January 2047 through 13 February 2048
Solar month · clock period
The Rabbit month and double-hour
Spring branch month
Awakening of Insects opens the Rabbit month at 5 March 2026, 21:59:00 UTC+8. It runs until Pure Brightness at 5 April 2026, 02:40:00 UTC+8.
These are solar-term instants, not the first days of numbered lunar months.
Follow the whole spring season →05:00–06:59
The Rabbit double-hour occupies position 4 in the twelve-branch clock. It follows Tiger and precedes Dragon. A double-hour label describes a time of day; it does not determine the year or day animal.
The sets containing Rabbit
Harmony, season, trine and clash
Six Harmonies
Paired branches
This is a fixed two-branch pairing.
Three Harmonies · trines
Wood
These three animals form the full set; two animals show shared membership.
Three Meetings · seasons
Spring · Wood
These three animals form the full set; two animals show shared membership.
Six Clashes
Opposite branches
This is a fixed two-branch pairing.
The stems held inside Rabbit
primary layer
Yǐ · 乙
Yin Wood
Hidden stems are attached to the branch. The visible stem on a particular Rabbit day is the first character of that day’s two-character name.