Chinese zodiac · Year of the Rabbit
The Wood Rabbit: 1975, 2035, 2095
乙卯 · Yi mǎo · Yin Wood stem on the Wood branch
A Wood Rabbit year pairs the Heavenly Stem 乙 (Yi, yin Wood) with the Earthly Branch 卯 (mǎo, the Rabbit). The pair recurs every sixty years, so in the range AsterNym covers the Wood Rabbit years are 1975, 2035, 2095. The animal is the same each time; the stem is what makes a Wood Rabbit different from a Fire Rabbit or a Earth Rabbit. The popular zodiac begins each of these years at Lunar New Year and BaZi begins it at Li Chun, so both boundaries are given below for every year.
What a Wood Rabbit is like
Popular Chinese zodiac tradition. For reflection, not prediction.
The Wood Rabbit is the most generous and the easiest to take advantage of, kind to a fault and forgiving past the point of sense.
1975 Wood Rabbits are the generous ones, and the tradition's kind-to-a-fault Rabbit describes a year that ended a war and started a great many families.
In BaZi terms the Wood stem sits on a Wood branch, the same element twice. Practitioners read a matched pair as a year with one clear voice: the Rabbit's nature amplified rather than argued with, strong in its own direction and short of counterweight. Whatever the Rabbit does, this year does more of it.
The rest of the Rabbit’s character, in love, at work and the growing edge, is on the Year of the Rabbit page.
Wood Rabbit years and when each begins
The popular zodiac year begins at Lunar New Year; BaZi begins it at Li Chun, the start of spring. Both dates are given so a birth between them can be placed in either system.
| Year | Lunar New Year (popular zodiac) | Ends | Li Chun (BaZi) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 11 February 1975 | 30 January 1976 | 4 February 1975 |
| 2035 | 8 February 2035 | 27 January 2036 | 4 February 2035 |
| 2095 | outside the table | … | 3 February 2095 |
The next Wood Rabbit year is 2035. Check any birthday against the boundary with the finder.
Famous Wood Rabbits
Public birth records, assigned by the Lunar New Year boundary.
Common questions
- When does the Year of the Wood Rabbit start?
- The 1975 Wood Rabbit year began at Lunar New Year on 11 February 1975 and ran to 30 January 1976. The 2035 Wood Rabbit year began at Lunar New Year on 8 February 2035 and ran to 27 January 2036. 2095 is outside AsterNym's Lunar New Year table. BaZi turns the year at Li Chun instead (1975: 4 February 1975; 2035: 4 February 2035; 2095: 3 February 2095), so a birth between the two dates carries different year animals in the two systems.
- What is a Wood Rabbit personality?
- The Wood Rabbit is the most generous and the easiest to take advantage of, kind to a fault and forgiving past the point of sense. In BaZi terms the Wood stem sits on a Wood branch, the same element twice. Practitioners read a matched pair as a year with one clear voice: the Rabbit's nature amplified rather than argued with, strong in its own direction and short of counterweight. Whatever the Rabbit does, this year does more of it.
- When is the next Wood Rabbit year?
- 2035. The pair of stem 乙 and branch 卯 recurs every sixty years.