2025: Year of the Wood Snake
2025 is the Year of the Snake, 蛇 , a Wood year. It starts at Chinese New Year on 29 January 2025 and runs to 16 February 2026. Born from 1 January to 28 January 2025? You are a Dragon, 2024.
2025 in the Chinese zodiac
蛇
Wood Snake
- Animal
- 蛇 Snake
- Element
- 木 Wood, yin
- Cycle name
- 乙巳年
- Starts
- 29 January 2025
- Ends
- 16 February 2026
- Matches
- Rooster, Ox and Monkey; clashes with Pig
- Age
- Born in 2025? You turn 1 in 2026.
Say 2025 in Chinese
A year is read digit by digit, then 年 : no “nineteen eighty-three”.
- 二〇二五年 2025
- 乙巳年 the 乙巳 year, its name in the sixty-year cycle
- 我是二〇二五年出生的 I was born in 2025.
- 我属蛇 I'm a Snake.
- 木蛇 Wood Snake
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 Snake
- 冷静 calm
- 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 Snake, 蛇
The Snake is called the “little dragon”, 小龙. People born in a Snake year are said to be calm, wise and intuitive: private people who think before they speak and rarely miss.
Questions
What Chinese zodiac animal is 2025?
2025 is the Year of the Snake, 蛇 (shé), from Chinese New Year on 29 January 2025 to 16 February 2026. Its element is Wood, so people born in it are Wood Snakes.
What if I was born in January or early February 2025?
The zodiac year starts at Chinese New Year, not on 1 January. Born from 1 January to 28 January 2025? You belong to 2024, the Year of the Wood Dragon.
What element is 2025 in the Chinese zodiac?
Wood, 木 (mù). 2025 is 乙巳 (yǐ sì) in the sixty-year cycle, a yin Wood year; the Wood Snake comes round once every sixty years.
How do you say 2025 in Chinese?
Read the digits one by one and add 年 (nián, year): 二〇二五年 (èr líng èr wǔ nián). “I was born in 2025” is 我是二〇二五年出生的 (wǒ shì èr líng èr wǔ nián chū shēng de), and “I'm a Snake” is 我属蛇 (wǒ shǔ shé).