- Animal
- 🐒 Monkey (猴)
- Element
- Wood 木 · Yang
- Stem & Branch
- 甲申 · Jiǎ Shēn
- Year starts
- January 22, 2004 (Lunar New Year)
- Year ends
- February 8, 2005
- Age in 2027
- turns 23
- 2027 Tai Sui
- a neutral year with Tai Sui
The Wood Monkey personality
A quick-minded Monkey with extra reach, ideals, and nerve.
Wood Monkey years blend the Monkey’s sharp timing and clever social radar with Jia Wood’s upright, outward-moving style. Compared with other Monkeys, this one is less purely tactical and more interested in growth, vision, and making something larger happen. The Monkey branch is Metal, while Wood is cut and shaped by Metal, so this sign often carries a useful inner tension: big ideas meeting hard reality.
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Best matches and clashes
Six Harmony partner: 🐒 Monkey & 🐍 Snake. Three Harmony partners: 🐒 Monkey & 🐀 Rat, 🐒 Monkey & 🐉 Dragon. Clash: 🐒 Monkey & 🐅 Tiger.
A Monkey born in 2004 in the 2027 Fire Goat year
2027 is a neutral year with Tai Sui for the Monkey. See the month-by-month forecast in Monkey horoscope 2027.
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What Chinese zodiac is 2004?
2004 is the Year of the Wood Monkey (甲申, Jiǎ Shēn). It runs from Lunar New Year on January 22, 2004 to February 8, 2005.
What element is 2004 in Chinese astrology?
Wood (木), in its Yang form. The year's Heavenly Stem is 甲 and its Earthly Branch is 申 (Monkey).
Is someone born in January 2004 a Monkey?
Born in January or early February 2004, before January 22, 2004? Then your sign is the Water Goat of 2003.
Who is a Wood Monkey compatible with?
Traditionally the Monkey pairs best with the Snake, Rat, Dragon and finds the Tiger most challenging.
What does 2027 mean for someone born in 2004?
2027 is the Fire Goat year. For the Monkey it is a neutral year with Tai Sui. A person born in 2004 turns 23 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.