2024: Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 is the Year of the Dragon, 龙 , a Wood year. It starts at Chinese New Year on 10 February 2024 and runs to 28 January 2025. Born from 1 January to 9 February 2024? You are a Rabbit, 2023.
2024 in the Chinese zodiac
龙
Wood Dragon
- Animal
- 龙 Dragon
- Element
- 木 Wood, yang
- Cycle name
- 甲辰年
- Starts
- 10 February 2024
- Ends
- 28 January 2025
- Matches
- Monkey, Rat and Rooster; clashes with Dog
- Age
- Born in 2024? You turn 2 in 2026.
Say 2024 in Chinese
A year is read digit by digit, then 年 : no “nineteen eighty-three”.
- 二〇二四年 2024
- 甲辰年 the 甲辰 year, its name in the sixty-year cycle
- 我是二〇二四年出生的 I was born in 2024.
- 我属龙 I'm a Dragon.
- 木龙 Wood Dragon
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 Dragon
- 有活力 full of energy
- 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 Dragon, 龙
The Dragon is the only one of the twelve that isn’t real, and the luckiest: emperors wore it, and many families hope for a Dragon baby. People born in a Dragon year are said to be ambitious, energetic and charismatic, people who think big.
Questions
What Chinese zodiac animal is 2024?
2024 is the Year of the Dragon, 龙 (lóng), from Chinese New Year on 10 February 2024 to 28 January 2025. Its element is Wood, so people born in it are Wood Dragons.
What if I was born in January or early February 2024?
The zodiac year starts at Chinese New Year, not on 1 January. Born from 1 January to 9 February 2024? You belong to 2023, the Year of the Water Rabbit.
What element is 2024 in the Chinese zodiac?
Wood, 木 (mù). 2024 is 甲辰 (jiǎ chén) in the sixty-year cycle, a yang Wood year; the Wood Dragon comes round once every sixty years.
How do you say 2024 in Chinese?
Read the digits one by one and add 年 (nián, year): 二〇二四年 (èr líng èr sì nián). “I was born in 2024” is 我是二〇二四年出生的 (wǒ shì èr líng èr sì nián chū shēng de), and “I'm a Dragon” is 我属龙 (wǒ shǔ lóng).