2017: Year of the Fire Rooster
2017 is the Year of the Rooster, 鸡 , a Fire year. It starts at Chinese New Year on 28 January 2017 and runs to 15 February 2018. Born from 1 January to 27 January 2017? You are a Monkey, 2016.
2017 in the Chinese zodiac
鸡
Fire Rooster
- Animal
- 鸡 Rooster
- Element
- 火 Fire, yin
- Cycle name
- 丁酉年
- Starts
- 28 January 2017
- Ends
- 15 February 2018
- Matches
- Ox, Snake and Dragon; clashes with Rabbit
- Age
- Born in 2017? You turn 9 in 2026.
Say 2017 in Chinese
A year is read digit by digit, then 年 : no “nineteen eighty-three”.
- 二〇一七年 2017
- 丁酉年 the 丁酉 year, its name in the sixty-year cycle
- 我是二〇一七年出生的 I was born in 2017.
- 我属鸡 I'm a Rooster.
- 火鸡 Fire Rooster
What Fire means
火Fire is warmth and light at the height of summer. People born in a Fire year are said to be passionate and bold, the first to start and the last to give up.
- Season
- 夏 summer
- Direction
- 南 south
- Colour
- 红 red
Words for a Fire Rooster
- 自信 confident
- 热情 warm-hearted
- 乐观 optimistic
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 2017?
2017 is the Year of the Rooster, 鸡 (jī), from Chinese New Year on 28 January 2017 to 15 February 2018. Its element is Fire, so people born in it are Fire Roosters.
What if I was born in January or early February 2017?
The zodiac year starts at Chinese New Year, not on 1 January. Born from 1 January to 27 January 2017? You belong to 2016, the Year of the Fire Monkey.
What element is 2017 in the Chinese zodiac?
Fire, 火 (huǒ). 2017 is 丁酉 (dīng yǒu) in the sixty-year cycle, a yin Fire year; the Fire Rooster comes round once every sixty years.
How do you say 2017 in Chinese?
Read the digits one by one and add 年 (nián, year): 二〇一七年 (èr líng yī qī nián). “I was born in 2017” is 我是二〇一七年出生的 (wǒ shì èr líng yī qī nián chū shēng de), and “I'm a Rooster” is 我属鸡 (wǒ shǔ jī).