2005: Year of the Wood Rooster
2005 is the Year of the Rooster, 鸡 , a Wood year. It starts at Chinese New Year on 9 February 2005 and runs to 28 January 2006. Born from 1 January to 8 February 2005? You are a Monkey, 2004.
2005 in the Chinese zodiac
鸡
Wood Rooster
- Animal
- 鸡 Rooster
- Element
- 木 Wood, yin
- Cycle name
- 乙酉年
- Starts
- 9 February 2005
- Ends
- 28 January 2006
- Matches
- Ox, Snake and Dragon; clashes with Rabbit
- Age
- Born in 2005? You turn 21 in 2026.
Say 2005 in Chinese
A year is read digit by digit, then 年 : no “nineteen eighty-three”.
- 二〇〇五年 2005
- 乙酉年 the 乙酉 year, its name in the sixty-year cycle
- 我是二〇〇五年出生的 I was born in 2005.
- 我属鸡 I'm a Rooster.
- 木鸡 Wood Rooster
What Wood means
木Wood is growth: a tree reaching up and out. People born in a Wood year are said to be generous and kind, slow to anger and quick to help.
- Season
- 春 spring
- Direction
- 东 east
- Colour
- 青 green
Words for a Wood Rooster
- 自信 confident
- 大方 generous
- 仁慈 kind
Each year has one of five elements, 五行 , two years each, so the same animal and element meet once every sixty years. The traits are what tradition says, for fun.
The Rooster, 鸡
The Rooster wakes the world each morning. People born in a Rooster year are said to be confident, hard-working and frank: early risers who notice every detail and say what they think.
Questions
What Chinese zodiac animal is 2005?
2005 is the Year of the Rooster, 鸡 (jī), from Chinese New Year on 9 February 2005 to 28 January 2006. Its element is Wood, so people born in it are Wood Roosters.
What if I was born in January or early February 2005?
The zodiac year starts at Chinese New Year, not on 1 January. Born from 1 January to 8 February 2005? You belong to 2004, the Year of the Wood Monkey.
What element is 2005 in the Chinese zodiac?
Wood, 木 (mù). 2005 is 乙酉 (yǐ yǒu) in the sixty-year cycle, a yin Wood year; the Wood Rooster comes round once every sixty years.
How do you say 2005 in Chinese?
Read the digits one by one and add 年 (nián, year): 二〇〇五年 (èr líng líng wǔ nián). “I was born in 2005” is 我是二〇〇五年出生的 (wǒ shì èr líng líng wǔ nián chū shēng de), and “I'm a Rooster” is 我属鸡 (wǒ shǔ jī).