- Animal
- 🐓 Rooster (鸡)
- Element
- Metal 金 · Yin
- Stem & Branch
- 辛酉 · Xīn Yǒu
- Year starts
- February 5, 1981 (Lunar New Year)
- Year ends
- January 24, 1982
- Age in 2027
- turns 46
- 2027 Tai Sui
- a neutral year with Tai Sui
The Metal Rooster personality
Precise, polished, and quietly formidable.
The Metal Rooster stands out even among Rooster years because Metal sharpens the sign’s natural eye for order, timing, and presentation. Rooster already belongs to the Metal element by branch, and with Xin Metal on top, this 1981 birth year carries a doubled Metal quality: refined, exacting, and hard to fool. Yin polarity makes the style more controlled than loud.
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Best matches and clashes
Six Harmony partner: 🐓 Rooster & 🐉 Dragon. Three Harmony partners: 🐓 Rooster & 🐂 Ox, 🐓 Rooster & 🐍 Snake. Clash: 🐓 Rooster & 🐇 Rabbit.
A Rooster born in 1981 in the 2027 Fire Goat year
2027 is a neutral year with Tai Sui for the Rooster. See the month-by-month forecast in Rooster horoscope 2027.
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What Chinese zodiac is 1981?
1981 is the Year of the Metal Rooster (辛酉, Xīn Yǒu). It runs from Lunar New Year on February 5, 1981 to January 24, 1982.
What element is 1981 in Chinese astrology?
Metal (金), in its Yin form. The year's Heavenly Stem is 辛 and its Earthly Branch is 酉 (Rooster).
Is someone born in January 1981 a Rooster?
Born in January or early February 1981, before February 5, 1981? Then your sign is the Metal Monkey of 1980.
Who is a Metal Rooster compatible with?
Traditionally the Rooster pairs best with the Dragon, Ox, Snake and finds the Rabbit most challenging.
What does 2027 mean for someone born in 1981?
2027 is the Fire Goat year. For the Rooster it is a neutral year with Tai Sui. A person born in 1981 turns 46 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.