- Animal
- 🐅 Tiger (虎)
- Element
- Wood 木 · Yang
- Stem & Branch
- 甲寅 · Jiǎ Yín
- Year starts
- January 23, 1974 (Lunar New Year)
- Year ends
- February 10, 1975
- Age in 2027
- turns 53
- 2027 Tai Sui
- a neutral year with Tai Sui
The Wood Tiger personality
A Tiger with extra growth drive: bold, principled, and hard to ignore.
The Wood Tiger stands out from other Tigers by adding flexibility, ideals, and people awareness to the sign’s usual courage and force. Tiger is already a Yang Wood branch, so when the stem is also Yang Wood, the result is a doubled wood quality: upright, expansive, restless, and strongly guided by principle. Compared with Metal Tigers, this type is less severe; compared with Fire Tigers, less dramatic; compared with Earth Tigers, less cautious; and compared with Water Tigers, more direct.
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Best matches and clashes
Six Harmony partner: 🐅 Tiger & 🐖 Pig. Three Harmony partners: 🐅 Tiger & 🐎 Horse, 🐅 Tiger & 🐕 Dog. Clash: 🐅 Tiger & 🐒 Monkey.
A Tiger born in 1974 in the 2027 Fire Goat year
2027 is a neutral year with Tai Sui for the Tiger. See the month-by-month forecast in Tiger horoscope 2027.
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What Chinese zodiac is 1974?
1974 is the Year of the Wood Tiger (甲寅, Jiǎ Yín). It runs from Lunar New Year on January 23, 1974 to February 10, 1975.
What element is 1974 in Chinese astrology?
Wood (木), in its Yang form. The year's Heavenly Stem is 甲 and its Earthly Branch is 寅 (Tiger).
Is someone born in January 1974 a Tiger?
Born in January or early February 1974, before January 23, 1974? Then your sign is the Water Ox of 1973.
Who is a Wood Tiger compatible with?
Traditionally the Tiger pairs best with the Pig, Horse, Dog and finds the Monkey most challenging.
What does 2027 mean for someone born in 1974?
2027 is the Fire Goat year. For the Tiger it is a neutral year with Tai Sui. A person born in 1974 turns 53 in 2027.
Dates are computed from the Chinese lunar calendar (Lunar New Year). Some BaZi practitioners start the year at Lichun (around February 4) instead. Updated 2026-11-05.